Het verhaal van de Hongerige Rups
A1 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for beginners
About this clip
A 6:29 video in Dutch at A1 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 158 words per minute, rated 1.9/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸Storytelling - Personal stories, anecdotes, and lived experience.
- ▸Food & Cooking - Recipes, restaurant reviews, street food, and kitchen vocabulary.
- ▸Nature & Environment - The natural world, climate, and sustainability.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A1 Dutch listening practice listening practice?
87.2%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Dutch words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Dutch.
General Dutch frequency
84.2%
Top 1,000
87.2%
Top 2,000
94.9%
Top 5,000
Spoken Dutch frequency
88.9%
Top 1,000
96.8%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-Dutch 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 A1 level.
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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