Duisburg im Abstiegskampf: Müll, Migration und Verfall
B2 German listening practice · German · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 17:53 video in German at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 175 words per minute, rated 3.6/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
- ▸Culture & Society - Traditions, current events, social issues, and history.
- ▸Politics - Politics, elections, government, and policy debates.
From DER SPIEGEL↗ on YouTube.Watch original→
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 German listening practice listening practice?
90%
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
85.1%
Top 1,000
90%
Top 2,000
95.5%
Top 5,000
Spoken German frequency
91.5%
Top 1,000
97%
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.
beworfen
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
pelted/stoned
bulgaren
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
Bulgarians
der stärkere ist im recht
1×
might makes right; power dictates fairness
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-DE 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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