Starting a wave at the World Cup

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A2 English listening practice · American English · Curated for beginners

About this clip

A 36s video in English at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 214 words per minute, rated 2.9/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.

What this clip covers:
  • Sports - Soccer, basketball, tennis, the Olympics, and athletes.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this A2 English listening practice listening practice?

96.7%
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

88.3%
Top 1,000
96.7%
Top 2,000
96.7%
Top 5,000

Spoken English frequency

96.5%
Top 1,000
100%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A2 level.

portugal
Rare / outside top 5,000
country in Europe
I'm him
I am the best or important person.

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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