Why Many Chinese Adults Still Rely on Their Parents-Chinese Comprehensible Input-Lower Intermediate

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/03/14

2026/03/14

Speech duration: 13min 1s
Unique characters · 67 once: 239
Word count: 1,535
Average sentence length: 7.0
Length: 14:52
Unique words · 91 once: 235
Syllables per minute: 170
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 315
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 35 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 35 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 35

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 35 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 35 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 2

Lv 10

Lv 35

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 68%
HSK 2 9%
HSK 3 7%
HSK 4 7%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 91% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 92%, HSK 1–9 covers 92%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 158 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	110	Lv 1
他们	tā men	they; them	61	Lv 1
对	duì	right; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching	59	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]	57	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	53	Lv 1
父母	fù mǔ	father and mother; parents	41	Lv 7
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	37	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	35	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	31	Lv 1
他	tā	(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])	30	Lv 1
啃老	kěn lǎo	(coll.) to live with and depend on one's parents even upon reaching adulthood	30	Unranked
她	tā	she	30	Lv 1
钱	qián	coin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩\|两[liang3]; CL:筆\|笔[bi3]; surname Qian	29	Lv 2
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	28	Lv 2
想	xiǎng	to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)	25	Lv 1
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	24	Lv 1
工作	gōng zuò	to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task; CL:個\|个[ge4],份[fen4],項\|项[xiang4]	23	Lv 3
给	gěi	to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier); to supply; to provide	19	Lv 1
工资	gōng zī	wages; pay; CL:份[fen4]	18	Lv 35
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	18	Lv 2

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A 15-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 13 minutes of speech at 170 syllables per minute. It's 1,535 words long, using 235 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 35 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 35 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 他们, 对.