Manchester café faces rising coffee costs from tariffs
B2 English listening practice · American English · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 1:19 video in English at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 181 words per minute, rated 4.4/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
- ▸Food & Cooking - Recipes, restaurant reviews, street food, and kitchen vocabulary.
- ▸Work & Career - Jobs, interviews, workplace culture, and money.
From WMUR-TV↗ on YouTube.Watch original
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 English listening practice listening practice?
87.7%
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
76.3%
Top 1,000
87.7%
Top 2,000
94.5%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
83.6%
Top 1,000
95%
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 B2 level.
wmur
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(acronym) WMUR — TV station
reciprocal
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
mutual exchange of actions
trickle
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
flow in small drops
drinkers
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
people who consume beverages
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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