Cold case arrest, Origin drama and Laos cave rescue
C1 English listening practice · South African English · Curated for advanced learners
About this clip
A 9:40 video in English at C1 level, suitable for advanced learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 178 words per minute, rated 4.7/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
- ▸Sports - Soccer, basketball, tennis, the Olympics, and athletes.
- ▸Travel - Travel vlogs, tips, cultural experiences, and life abroad.
From 7NEWS Australia↗ on YouTube.Watch original
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this C1 English listening practice listening practice?
83%
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%
Top 1,000
83%
Top 2,000
93.6%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
86.4%
Top 1,000
93.1%
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 C1 level.
qps
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(acronym) QPS — Queensland Police Service
rescuers
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
people who save others
a far cry from his former life
1×
very different from his past existence
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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