What Musical Instrument Do You Like | Comprehensible Input | BEGINNER Chinese | Chinese Listening

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2023/10/24

Speech duration: 4min 7s
Unique characters · 27 once: 112
Word count: 469
Average sentence length: 5.9
Length: 6:29
Unique words · 36 once: 103
Syllables per minute: 167
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 117
Difficulty Beyond ranked vocabularydifficulty Many of this content's words are outside our ranked vocabulary list — specialised terms or name-like words — so no level reaches 95% word coverage. How difficulty works: Beyond ranked vocabulary

Many of this content's words are outside our ranked vocabulary list — specialised terms or name-like words — so no level reaches 95% word coverage.

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Vocab coverage

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Lv 2

Lv 29

Lv 72

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HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 46%
HSK 2 4%
HSK 3 4%
HSK 4 11%
HSK 5 6%
HSK 6 4%
HSK 7–9 7%
Not on HSK 18%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 64% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 74%, HSK 1–9 covers 82%.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
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]	43	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	34	Lv 1
乐器	lè qì	musical instrument; CL:件[jian4]	19	Lv 72
吉他	jí tā	(loanword) guitar; CL:把[ba3]	19	Lv 31
我	wǒ	I; me; my	16	Lv 1
鼓	gǔ	drum; to drum; to strike; to rouse; to bulge; to swell; old variant of 鼓[gu3]; CL:通[tong4],面[mian4]	16	Lv 60
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	13	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
嗯	ng	(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement	11	Lv 2
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	10	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
敲	qiāo	to hit; to strike; to tap; to rap; to knock; to rip sb off; to overcharge	9	Lv 29
钢琴	gāng qín	piano; CL:架[jia4],臺\|台[tai2]	9	Lv 31
什么	shén me	what?; something; anything	8	Lv 1
根	gēn	root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry); CL:條\|条[tiao2]	8	Lv 10
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	7	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)	7	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-	7	Lv 2
弹	dàn	crossball; bullet; shot; shell; ball; to pluck (a string); to play (a string instrument); to spring or leap; to shoot (e.g. with a catapult); (of cotton) to fluff or tease; to flick; to flip; to accuse; to impeach; elastic (of materials)	7	Lv 19
吗	ma	(coll.) what?; used in 嗎啡\|吗啡[ma3 fei1]; (question particle for "yes-no" questions)	6	Lv 1

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A 6-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 4 minutes of speech at 167 syllables per minute. It's 469 words long, using 103 different words. Difficulty: Beyond ranked vocabulary — many of its words are outside our ranked vocabulary list, so no level reaches 95% word coverage. Words to learn first include 是, 这个, 乐器.