Nachrichten in einfacher Sprache
A2 German listening practice · German · Curated for beginners
About this clip
A 8:02 video in German at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 133 words per minute, rated 2.5/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
- ▸Politics - Politics, elections, government, and policy debates.
- ▸History - Historical events, eras, and the people who shaped the world.
- ▸Culture & Society - Traditions, current events, social issues, and history.
From tagesschau↗ on YouTube.Watch original→
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 German listening practice listening practice?
87%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common German words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday German.
General German frequency
81.8%
Top 1,000
87%
Top 2,000
95.1%
Top 5,000
Spoken German frequency
88.8%
Top 1,000
96.6%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-German 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.
nachrichtensprechern
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
news presenters
ölfirma
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
oil company
erste Frau in der Tagesschau
1×
first woman in the news program
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-DE 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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