Ep02_Story3 Chinese Idiom Mǎmǎ hūhū | 100 Chinese Stories Series|Comprehensible Input|SUPER BEGINNER

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2023/08/15

2023/08/15

Speech duration: 13min 51s
Unique characters · 30 once: 172
Word count: 1,609
Average sentence length: 6.7
Length: 15:37
Unique words · 42 once: 174
Syllables per minute: 157
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 323
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 51 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 51 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 51

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 51 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 51 sits in the Upper-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 4

Lv 24

Lv 51

Lv 81

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 58%
HSK 2 9%
HSK 3 11%
HSK 4 7%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 86% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, 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 113 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 113 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	113	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])	88	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]	66	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	62	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]	60	Lv 1
老虎	lǎo hǔ	tiger; CL:隻\|只[zhi1]	54	Lv 51
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	47	Lv 1
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	46	Lv 1
儿子	ér zi	son	45	Lv 4
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	40	Lv 1
画	huà	to draw; to paint; picture; painting (CL:幅[fu2],張\|张[zhang1]); to draw (a line) (variant of 劃\|划[hua4]); stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 劃\|划[hua4]); (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 劃\|划[hua4])	37	Lv 16
马	mǎ	horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞\|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]; CL:匹[pi3]; surname Ma	35	Lv 6
把	bǎ	to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}); handle	30	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)	27	Lv 1
幅	fú	width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures	25	Lv 24
画家	huà jiā	painter; CL:個\|个[ge4]	23	Lv 59
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]	23	Lv 1
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	22	Lv 1
大	dà	big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother); see 大夫[dai4 fu5]	21	Lv 2
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]	19	Lv 2

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A 16-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 14 minutes of speech at 157 syllables per minute. It's 1,609 words long, using 174 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 51 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 51 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 这个, 他, 是.