Weird Personal Questions - Chinese Comprehensible Input - Advanced Beginner

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/02/19

2026/02/19

Speech duration: 9min 30s
Unique characters · 50 once: 186
Word count: 1,040
Average sentence length: 6.9
Length: 11:29
Unique words · 57 once: 171
Syllables per minute: 153
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 209
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 67 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 67 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 67

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 67 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 67 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 1

Lv 5

Lv 24

Lv 67

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 65%
HSK 2 8%
HSK 3 11%
HSK 4 2%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 12%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 86% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, HSK 1–9 covers 88%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 118 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	73	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	52	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	41	Lv 1
对	duì	right; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching	39	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.)	36	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	31	Lv 1
可以	kě yǐ	can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good	26	Lv 1
范	fàn	pattern; model; example; surname Fan	24	Lv 67
吃	chī	to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc); variant of 吃[chi1]	22	Lv 2
选	xuǎn	to choose; to pick; to select; to elect	21	Lv 6
如果	rú guǒ	if; in case; in the event that	20	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	20	Lv 1
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])	18	Lv 1
会	huì	can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]); (bound form) to reckon accounts	17	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	16	Lv 1
忙	máng	busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush	16	Lv 8
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]	15	Lv 1
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	14	Lv 1
想	xiǎng	to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)	13	Lv 1
智	zhì	(literary) wise; wisdom	12	Lv 62

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An 11-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 10 minutes of speech at 153 syllables per minute. It's 1,040 words long, using 171 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 67 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 67 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 很, 不.