Pasta con polpo croccante, pecorino e mentuccia
A2 Italian listening practice · Roman Italian · Curated for beginners
About this clip
A 59s video in Italian at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 187 words per minute, rated 3.9/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸Food & Cooking - Recipes, restaurant reviews, street food, and kitchen vocabulary.
From Chef Max Mariola↗ on YouTube.Watch original→
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Italian listening practice listening practice?
86%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Italian words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Italian.
General Italian frequency
82.6%
Top 1,000
86%
Top 2,000
92.6%
Top 5,000
Spoken Italian frequency
88.8%
Top 1,000
95.3%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-Italian 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.
polpo
6×
Rare / outside top 5,000
octopus
mentuccia
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
mint (wild)
extravergine
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
extra virgin
morte di freschezza
1×
extremely fresh and delicious food
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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