Birthday Sushi Lunch in Beijing| Chinese listening&shadowing practice | CC SUB

YouTube · Chloe Chinese Class · Learner content · 2026/04/30

2026/04/30

Speech duration: 21min 46s
Unique characters · 9 once: 403
Word count: 2,415
Average sentence length: 9.4
Length: 23:12
Unique words · 15 once: 407
Syllables per minute: 159
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 367
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 185 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 185 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 185

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 185 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 185 sits in the Advanced 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 2

Lv 12

Lv 64

Lv 185

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 52%
HSK 2 13%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 8%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 83% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 87%, HSK 1–9 covers 89%.

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 338 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 338 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	182	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]	80	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	52	Lv 1
了	le	(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause); to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget"); (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無\|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least; (of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly; to understand clearly (variant of 瞭\|了[liao3]); unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]	42	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	39	Lv 1
吃	chī	to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc); variant of 吃[chi1]	38	Lv 2
寿司	shòu sī	sushi	37	Lv 229
会	huì	can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]); (bound form) to reckon accounts	32	Lv 1
在	zài	to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)	32	Lv 1
这	zhè	(pronoun) this; these; (coll.) this; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)	31	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	27	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	26	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	23	Lv 1
用	yòng	to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore; (bound form) expense; outlay	22	Lv 2
叫	jiào	to shout; to call; to order; to ask; to be called; by (indicates agent in the passive mood); variant of 叫[jiao4]	20	Lv 2
都	dōu	all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all; capital city; metropolis; surname Du	19	Lv 1
一	yī	one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit	18	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	18	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	18	Lv 1
做	zuò	to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)	18	Lv 1

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A 23-minute video from Chloe Chinese Class with 22 minutes of speech at 159 syllables per minute. It's 2,415 words long, using 407 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 185 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 185 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 是, 我.