Easy Chinese podcast: test how much you know about mainland China? | Beginner | Comprehensible input

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/07/01
2025/07/01
Speech duration
29min 8s
Unique characters · 80 once
376
Word count
3,498
Average sentence length
5.7
Length
33:29
Unique words · 121 once
381
Syllables per minute
167
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
858
Difficulty
Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 38 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 38 sits in the Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Intermediate · 38

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 38 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 38 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 59%
  • HSK 2 8%
  • HSK 3 9%
  • HSK 4 8%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • 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 211 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 211 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
嗯ng(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement179Lv 2
是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]174Lv 1
对duìright; 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; matching162Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my157Lv 1
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; target149Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-104Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)90Lv 1
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 to66Lv 1
知道zhī dàoto know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]65Lv 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.)61Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 33-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 29 minutes of speech at 167 syllables per minute. It's 3,498 words long, using 381 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 38 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 38 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 嗯, 是, 对.