How A TV News Story Is Made
B1 English listening practice · American English · Curated for intermediate learners
About this clip
A 2:18 video in English at B1 level, suitable for intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 188 words per minute, rated 4.2/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
- ▸Storytelling - Personal stories, anecdotes, and lived experience.
- ▸Interviews - Long-form conversations and Q&As.
From KTVQ News↗ on YouTube.Watch original
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B1 English listening practice listening practice?
88.6%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common English words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday English.
General English frequency
84.7%
Top 1,000
88.6%
Top 2,000
96.3%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
92.5%
Top 1,000
95.4%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-English data than in general usage, so it may feel closer to everyday conversation.
Words above this video’s level
Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s B1 level.
mmj
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(acronym) MMJ — Medical Marijuana
mtn
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(acronym) MTN — Mountain
airwaves
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
radio or television signals
outside the box
1×
thinking creatively or differently
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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