Die Debatte über die Wiedereinführung der Wehrpflicht
B2 German listening practice · Standard German · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 3:56 video in German at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 173 words per minute, rated 4.3/5, 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.
- ▸History - Historical events, eras, and the people who shaped the world.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 German listening practice listening practice?
86.4%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common German words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday German.
General German frequency
80.3%
Top 1,000
86.4%
Top 2,000
92.3%
Top 5,000
Spoken German frequency
92.5%
Top 1,000
96.5%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-German 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.
strack
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
taut, tight (dialectal)
wehrpflichtige
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
conscripts / draftees
aussetzung
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
exposure, suspension
einführt
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
introduces; brings in
pistorius
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(proper noun) Pistorius
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-DE 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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