Why Meditation Is So Powerful For Your Brain
B2 English listening practice · American English · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 58s video in English at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 164 words per minute, rated 4.1/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸Health & Wellness - Fitness, mental health, nutrition, sleep, and self-care.
- ▸Self-Improvement - Life advice, habits, motivation, and personal growth.
- ▸Science - Discoveries, experiments, and how the world works.
From Saybrook University↗ 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
81.9%
Top 1,000
87.7%
Top 2,000
91.3%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
86.7%
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.
meditation
5×
Rare / outside top 5,000
focused mental exercise
meditate
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
to focus one's mind
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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