Skiing vs Snowboarding: Why It's Not a Debate
A2 English listening practice · American English · Curated for beginners
About this clip
A 24s video in English at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 192 words per minute, rated 3.7/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 English listening practice listening practice?
84.1%
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
76.8%
Top 1,000
84.1%
Top 2,000
94.2%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
83.1%
Top 1,000
91.5%
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 A2 level.
snowboarding
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
riding on a snowboard
phenomenal
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
extraordinary; outstanding
spectrum
1×
Top 5,000
range of different things
versus
1×
Top 5,000
against; in contrast to
the skiing versus snowboarding debate
1×
disagreement about skiing and snowboarding preferences
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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