Seeing a friend on the street - Mandarin Chinese Dialogue (Pinyin and English in description field)

YouTube · Better in Chinese · Learner content · 2022/03/24

2022/03/24

Speech duration: 0min 49s
Unique characters · 50 once: 98
Word count: 156
Average sentence length: 6.7
Length: 1:17
Unique words · 46 once: 79
Syllables per minute: 262
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 32
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 31

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 sits in the 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 6

Lv 12

Lv 31

Lv 50

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 79%
HSK 2 4%
HSK 3 8%
HSK 4 1%
HSK 5 0%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 7%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 92% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 93%, HSK 1–9 covers 93%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 72 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	11	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	10	Lv 1
好	hǎo	good; 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 to	8	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.)	7	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]	5	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	5	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)	4	Lv 1
怎么样	zěn me yàng	how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?	4	Lv 6
篮球	lán qiú	basketball; CL:個\|个[ge4],隻\|只[zhi1]	4	Lv 31
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])	3	Lv 1
小	xiǎo	small; tiny; few; young	3	Lv 2
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	3	Lv 1
挺	tǐng	straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns	3	Lv 6
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	2	Lv 1
个	gè	used in 自個兒\|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]; (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual; variant of 個\|个[ge4]	2	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	2	Lv 1
再见	zài jiàn	goodbye; see you again later	2	Lv 4
去	qù	to 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)	2	Lv 1
号码	hào mǎ	number; CL:堆[dui1],個\|个[ge4]	2	Lv 10
喜欢	xǐ huān	to like; to be fond of	2	Lv 1

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A 1-minute video from Better in Chinese with 49 seconds of speech at 262 syllables per minute. It's 156 words long, using 79 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 31 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 好.