Should One Degree Be Free?
B2 English listening practice · American English · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 2:57 video in English at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 226 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.
- ▸Culture & Society - Traditions, current events, social issues, and history.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 English listening practice listening practice?
92%
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
87.4%
Top 1,000
92%
Top 2,000
97%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
92.6%
Top 1,000
96.2%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
Words above this video’s level
Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s B2 level.
indexation
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
adjustment to inflation
hecs
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(acronym) HECS — student loan scheme
privatized
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
made private ownership
profiting
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
making profit
selfish view
1×
narrow perspective focused only on oneself
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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