Chinese Vlog: Vegetarian food in Yilan Taiwan | Low Intermediate | Comprehensible Input

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2025/12/30

Speech duration: 11min 31s
Unique characters · 101 once: 314
Word count: 1,599
Average sentence length: 7.7
Length: 16:15
Unique words · 126 once: 318
Syllables per minute: 194
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 291
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 210 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 210 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 210

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 210 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 210 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 1

Lv 8

Lv 72

Lv 210

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 55%
HSK 2 9%
HSK 3 8%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 5%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 2%
Not on HSK 16%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 76% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 83%, HSK 1–9 covers 84%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 235 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	111	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]	58	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	49	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	41	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	32	Lv 1
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	27	Lv 2
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)	24	Lv 1
你们	nǐ men	you (plural)	23	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	22	Lv 1
多	duō	many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-	21	Lv 2
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	21	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	20	Lv 1
他们	tā men	they; them	20	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]	20	Lv 2
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]	19	Lv 1
点	diǎn	to touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list); to order (food etc); to select; to mention; to bring up (a topic or person); to hint at; to imply; to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops; to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite; to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down; point; dot; spot; speck; dot stroke in Chinese characters; (math.) decimal point; point in time or space; (after a number) o'clock; a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more; classifier for small amounts	19	Lv 1
汤	tāng	rushing current; soup; hot or boiling water; decoction of medicinal herbs; water in which sth has been boiled; surname Tang	18	Lv 30
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	18	Lv 1
还有	hái yǒu	there still remain(s); there is (or are) still; in addition	18	Lv 2
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	17	Lv 1

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A 16-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 12 minutes of speech at 194 syllables per minute. It's 1,599 words long, using 318 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 210 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 210 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 是, 我.