Sherlock Holmes And The Red-Headed League Mystery
C1 English listening practice · American English · Curated for advanced learners
About this clip
A 5:16 video in English at C1 level, suitable for advanced learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 152 words per minute, rated 4.3/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this C1 English listening practice listening practice?
82.5%
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
76.4%
Top 1,000
82.5%
Top 2,000
92.5%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
82.9%
Top 1,000
92.2%
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.
pawnshop
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
shop for buying/selling items
the game is afoot
1×
the adventure or investigation has begun
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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