1. No phone = No life | SUPER BEGINNER Series - China, Everyday

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2025/12/06
2025/12/06
Speech duration
28min 42s
Unique characters · 27 once
237
Word count
2,965
Average sentence length
6.4
Length
31:33
Unique words · 44 once
237
Syllables per minute
147
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
657
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 228 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 228 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 228

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 228 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 228 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 53%
  • HSK 2 7%
  • HSK 3 8%
  • HSK 4 5%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 12%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 13%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 72% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 87%, HSK 1–9 covers 87%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 149 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
黄huángyellow; pornographic; to fall through; surname Huang or Hwang341Lv 40
这个zhè gè(pronoun) this; (adjective) this111Lv 1
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; target97Lv 1
她tāshe94Lv 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]84Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my74Lv 1
用yòngto use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore; (bound form) expense; outlay69Lv 2
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.)67Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)67Lv 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 to62Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 32-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 29 minutes of speech at 147 syllables per minute. It's 2,965 words long, using 237 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 228 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 228 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 黄, 这个, 的.