Dialect Vs Language: Power, Politics And Identity
C1 English listening practice · English · Curated for advanced learners
About this clip
A 3:12 video in English at C1 level, suitable for advanced learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 237 words per minute, rated 5.0/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this C1 English listening practice listening practice?
88.5%
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
84.8%
Top 1,000
88.5%
Top 2,000
93.4%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
85.2%
Top 1,000
93.7%
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 C1 level.
dialect
7×
Rare / outside top 5,000
regional language variation
arabic
4×
Rare / outside top 5,000
Ellipsis of gum arabic.
intelligibility
4×
Rare / outside top 5,000
That which is intelligible; the degree to which something is intelligible.
dialects
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
regional language variations
doesn
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000Common in speech
does not (informal)
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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