Māori family dinner with traditional seafood and kai
A2 English listening practice · New Zealand English · Curated for beginners
About this clip
A 1:23 video in English at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 208 words per minute, rated 3.9/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 English listening practice listening practice?
81.7%
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
74.3%
Top 1,000
81.7%
Top 2,000
88.7%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
88.8%
Top 1,000
95.8%
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 A2 level.
maori
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(proper noun) indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand
couldn
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000Common in speech
could not (informal contraction)
ginger
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
spicy root used in cooking
salmon
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
a type of fish (edible)
sweetness
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
quality of being sweet
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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