I felt like a princess in the heart of Kashgar

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2026/04/04

Speech duration: 5min 18s
Unique characters · 54 once: 187
Word count: 710
Average sentence length: 7.3
Length: 7:02
Unique words · 60 once: 160
Syllables per minute: 201
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 145
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 30 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 30 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 30

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 30 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 30 sits in the Intermediate range.

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Vocab coverage

The Level you need to know each share of this video’s words. The dark 95% step is its difficulty.

Lv 1

Lv 6

Lv 19

Lv 30

Lv 93

HSK 3.0 coverage

Which HSK 3.0 list each of this video’s words comes from.

HSK 1 57%
HSK 2 8%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 3%
HSK 6 4%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 14%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 78% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 85%, HSK 1–9 covers 86%.

Words to learn first

Pick a level to see the words a learner there needs to understand 95% of this video’s words.

Starting from zero (Beginner), learn 122 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 122 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
的	de	of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的\|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"); also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs; really and truly; a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4]); (bound form) bull's-eye; target	42	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	32	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	30	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	28	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	20	Lv 1
也	yě	also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]; surname Ye	15	Lv 1
哈哈	hā hā	(onom.) laughing out loud	15	Lv 25
这里	zhè lǐ	here; variant of 這裡\|这里[zhe4 li3]	15	Lv 1
是	shì	to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]	14	Lv 1
哇	wa	Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting; replaces 啊[a5] when following the vowel "u" or "ao"	13	Lv 5
她	tā	she	13	Lv 1
好	hǎo	good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello; to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to	13	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	13	Lv 1
看	kàn	to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard; to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for	13	Lv 1
你	nǐ	you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2]); you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)	12	Lv 1
楼	lóu	house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor; CL:層\|层[ceng2],座[zuo4],棟\|栋[dong4]; surname Lou	11	Lv 13
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	11	Lv 2
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	10	Lv 2
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	10	Lv 1
说	shuō	to persuade; to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine; variant of 說\|说[shuo1]	10	Lv 1

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A 7-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 5 minutes of speech at 201 syllables per minute. It's 710 words long, using 160 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 30 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 30 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 我们, 很.