Heated exchange with the Taoiseach in Irish parliament
B2 English listening practice · Irish English · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 14s video in English at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 267 words per minute, rated 4.8/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸Politics - Politics, elections, government, and policy debates.
- ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
From VideoParliament Ireland↗ on YouTube.Watch original
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 English listening practice listening practice?
90.8%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common English words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday English.
General English frequency
86.2%
Top 1,000
90.8%
Top 2,000
93.8%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
95.1%
Top 1,000
96.7%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-English 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.
shack
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
small, crudely built house
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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