Canal de Panamá vs Tren del Istmo: ¿Plan B para México?
B2 Spanish listening practice · Mexican Spanish · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 2:40 video in Spanish at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 189 words per minute, rated 4.4/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸Transportation - Cars, trains, planes, and getting around.
- ▸Politics - Politics, elections, government, and policy debates.
From Badabun↗ on YouTube.Watch original→
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 Spanish listening practice listening practice?
88.7%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Spanish words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Spanish.
General Spanish frequency
78.7%
Top 1,000
88.7%
Top 2,000
95.2%
Top 5,000
Spoken Spanish frequency
90.1%
Top 1,000
97.5%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-Spanish 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.
alimentados
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
fed
creímos
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
we believed
decirla
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
to say it
plan B
1×
alternative strategy in case of failure
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-ESP 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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