What Happens When You Go Viral?
B2 English listening practice · American English · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 1:13 video in English at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 223 words per minute, rated 4.6/5, hard 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.
- ▸Relationships - Dating, friendship, marriage, and social life.
From SBS News↗ on YouTube.Watch original→
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 English listening practice listening practice?
93%
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
89.4%
Top 1,000
93%
Top 2,000
98%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
94.8%
Top 1,000
98.4%
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.
heartless
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
lacking compassion
accusation
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
claim of wrongdoing
innocent bystanders have essentially turned into villains
1×
neutral people seen as wrongdoers unfairly
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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