Pompiers surmenés par les feux et la canicule

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B2 French listening practice · French · Curated for upper-intermediate learners

About this clip

A 1:44 video in French at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 168 words per minute, rated 4.1/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.

What this clip covers:
  • News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
  • Nature & Environment - The natural world, climate, and sustainability.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this B2 French listening practice listening practice?

83%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common French words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday French.

General French frequency

73.6%
Top 1,000
83%
Top 2,000
94.9%
Top 5,000

Spoken French frequency

84%
Top 1,000
94%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-French 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.

étouffante
Rare / outside top 5,000
suffocating
propagées
Rare / outside top 5,000
spread
rogné
Rare / outside top 5,000
trimmed
terminaient
Rare / outside top 5,000
were ending
mettre les sapeurs-pompiers dans leur disponibilité
make firefighters available for duty

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · Lexique 3.83 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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