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Get ready with me in the morning | Comprehensible Input | Beginner Chinese

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2025/08/23
2025/08/23
Speech duration
12min 27s
Unique characters · 42 once
218
Word count
1,446
Average sentence length
6.6
Length
16:14
Unique words · 60 once
226
Syllables per minute
164
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
307
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 85 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 85 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 85

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 85 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 85 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 50%
  • HSK 2 8%
  • HSK 3 11%
  • HSK 4 6%
  • HSK 5 5%
  • HSK 6 2%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 17%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 75% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 82%, HSK 1–9 covers 83%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 160 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my102Lv 1
这个zhè gè(pronoun) this; (adjective) this87Lv 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]54Lv 1
好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello; to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to53Lv 1
是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]34Lv 1
擦cāto rub; to scratch; to wipe; to polish; to apply (lipstick, lotion etc); to brush (past); to shred (a vegetable etc)33Lv 21
的deof; ~'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; target31Lv 1
去qùto go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)22Lv 1
现在xiàn zàinow; at present; currently22Lv 1
你nǐyou (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.)21Lv 1

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A 16-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 12 minutes of speech at 164 syllables per minute. It's 1,446 words long, using 226 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 85 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 85 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 这个, 了.