Who Is Your Favorite Sibling?

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A1 English listening practice · English · Curated for beginners

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What does the word “sibling” mean?

sibling
family word
A sibling is your brother or your sister — one word for both.

A sibling is your brother or your sister. The nice thing is that one word works for both. You do not need to say “brother or sister.” You can just say sibling. A boy sibling is a brother. A girl sibling is a sister. The plural is siblings. You can say, “I have three siblings.” This is a useful word when you do not want to say the gender, or when you mean brothers and sisters together.

In the clip, the children all have many siblings. One girl is asked, “Who’s your favorite sibling out of all 15?” So this family has 15 children. Each child picks one favorite brother or sister from the group.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this A1 English listening practice listening practice?

87.9%
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

87.9%
Top 1,000
87.9%
Top 2,000
95.8%
Top 5,000

Spoken English frequency

86.4%
Top 1,000
95.5%
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 A1 level.

paisley
Rare / outside top 5,000
pattern with swirling shapes
lily
Rare / outside top 5,000Common in speech
Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which inc…

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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