Fun facts about Prisons in Taiwan | Intermediate | Comprehensible input

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2026/05/19

Speech duration: 6min 29s
Unique characters · 96 once: 242
Word count: 643
Average sentence length: 8.9
Length: 8:43
Unique words · 102 once: 204
Syllables per minute: 150
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 110
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 126 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 126 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 126

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 126 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 126 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 2

Lv 8

Lv 28

Lv 126

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 59%
HSK 2 6%
HSK 3 11%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 3%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 5%
Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 79% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 84%, 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 171 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 171 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	48	Lv 1
监狱	jiān yù	prison	30	Lv 8
做	zuò	to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)	20	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	17	Lv 1
多	duō	many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-	16	Lv 2
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	15	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)	13	Lv 1
他们	tā men	they; them	12	Lv 1
台湾	tái wān	Taiwan; variant of 臺灣\|台湾[Tai2 wan1]	12	Lv 126
工作	gōng zuò	to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task; CL:個\|个[ge4],份[fen4],項\|项[xiang4]	12	Lv 3
我	wǒ	I; me; my	12	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	12	Lv 1
也	yě	also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]; surname Ye	11	Lv 1
买	mǎi	to buy; to purchase	10	Lv 3
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.)	9	Lv 1
这些	zhè xiē	these	9	Lv 2
东西	dōng xī	east and west; thing; stuff; person; CL:個\|个[ge4],件[jian4]	8	Lv 2
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]	8	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]	7	Lv 1
受刑人	shòu xíng rén	person being executed; victim of corporal punishment; person serving a sentence	7	Unranked

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A 9-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 150 syllables per minute. It's 643 words long, using 204 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 126 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 126 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 监狱, 做.