Marco Rubio Meets Pope Leo Amid Vatican–Trump Tensions
B2 English listening practice · Canadian English · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 4:50 video in English at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 169 words per minute, rated 3.7/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
- ▸Politics - Politics, elections, government, and policy debates.
From CBC News↗ on YouTube.Watch original→
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 English listening practice listening practice?
85%
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
76.8%
Top 1,000
85%
Top 2,000
93.6%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
85.8%
Top 1,000
92.9%
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.
perceives
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
recognizes or understands
pontiff
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
pope or high priest
smooth things over
1×
make peace or resolve a conflict
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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