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He chose staff by face | BEGINNER

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2026/05/26
2026/05/26
Speech duration
5min 13s
Unique characters · 35 once
129
Word count
676
Average sentence length
7.5
Length
6:14
Unique words · 37 once
114
Syllables per minute
179
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
124
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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 68%
  • HSK 2 5%
  • HSK 3 9%
  • HSK 4 3%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 0%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 12%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 84% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 87%, 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 80 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 80 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
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; target67Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my50Lv 1
这个zhè gè(pronoun) this; (adjective) this32Lv 1
看kànto look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard; to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for27Lv 1
人rénperson; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]25Lv 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])25Lv 1
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.)25Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)22Lv 1
脸liǎnface; CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]20Lv 7
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 to19Lv 1

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A 6-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 5 minutes of speech at 179 syllables per minute. It's 676 words long, using 114 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 的, 我, 这个.