Le goût amer de l'exil selon Simon Abkarian
B2 French listening practice · French · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 55s video in French at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 241 words per minute, rated 4.8/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 French listening practice listening practice?
93.7%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common French words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday French.
General French frequency
91.6%
Top 1,000
93.7%
Top 2,000
96.6%
Top 5,000
Spoken French frequency
87.2%
Top 1,000
99.5%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-French 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.
gratitude
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
thankfulness
pain de l'exil
1×
suffering and hardship of exile
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · Lexique 3.83 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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