Taiwanese culture explained in easy Chinese | Comprehensible Input | Beginner Chinese

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2025/06/03

Speech duration: 5min 51s
Unique characters · 68 once: 162
Word count: 515
Average sentence length: 7.6
Length: 8:23
Unique words · 65 once: 139
Syllables per minute: 127
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 98
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 63 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 63 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 63

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 63 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 63 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 5

Lv 27

Lv 63

Lv 126

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 58%
HSK 2 8%
HSK 3 19%
HSK 4 3%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 10%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 88% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 89%, HSK 1–9 covers 90%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 112 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
房子	fáng zi	house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room; CL:棟\|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],套[tao4],間\|间[jian1]	45	Lv 5
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	37	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	17	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])	17	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.)	15	Lv 1
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	13	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	13	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]	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
台湾	tái wān	Taiwan; variant of 臺灣\|台湾[Tai2 wan1]	12	Lv 126
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]	10	Lv 1
因为	yīn wèi	because; owing to; on account of	9	Lv 1
买	mǎi	to buy; to purchase	8	Lv 3
便宜	biàn yí	convenient; cheap; inexpensive; a petty advantage; to let sb off lightly	8	Lv 40
告诉	gào sù	to press charges; to file a complaint; to tell; to inform; to let know	8	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)	8	Lv 1
凶宅	xiōng zhái	inauspicious abode; haunted house	7	Unranked
我	wǒ	I; me; my	7	Lv 1
死人	sǐ rén	dead person; (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen	7	Lv 63
贵	guì	expensive; (prefix) (honorific) your; abbr. for Guizhou Province 貴州\|贵州[Gui4 zhou1]; (bound form) highly valued; precious; (bound form) noble; of high rank	7	Lv 34

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An 8-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 127 syllables per minute. It's 515 words long, using 139 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 63 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 63 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 房子, 的, 不.