Penne alla vodka classiche e gourmet con Cristiano Tomei
B2 Italian listening practice · Tuscan Italian · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 9:25 video in Italian at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 130 words per minute, rated 3.6/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸Food & Cooking - Recipes, restaurant reviews, street food, and kitchen vocabulary.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 Italian listening practice listening practice?
83.4%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Italian words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Italian.
General Italian frequency
77.8%
Top 1,000
83.4%
Top 2,000
93.3%
Top 5,000
Spoken Italian frequency
87.6%
Top 1,000
91.7%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-Italian 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.
pennetta
8×
Rare / outside top 5,000
small pasta tubes
zafferano
6×
Rare / outside top 5,000
saffron
pelati
4×
Rare / outside top 5,000
peeled tomatoes
rigata
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
ridged or striped
obbligo di scarpetta
1×
unavoidable tradition of mopping sauce with bread
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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