Learn Chinese with this vlog: Life in Yilan, Taiwan | Comprehensible input | Low Intermediate

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/08/20

2025/08/20

Speech duration: 5min 46s
Unique characters · 70 once: 211
Word count: 677
Average sentence length: 8.0
Length: 8:29
Unique words · 81 once: 197
Syllables per minute: 167
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 121
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 66 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 66 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 66

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 66 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 66 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 27

Lv 66

Lv 126

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 61%
HSK 2 9%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 84% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 89%, HSK 1–9 covers 89%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 162 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	43	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	42	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	28	Lv 1
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]	21	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	13	Lv 1
你们	nǐ men	you (plural)	12	Lv 1
做	zuò	to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)	11	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	11	Lv 1
一点	yī diǎn	a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾\|一点钟[yi1 dian3 zhong1])	10	Lv 3
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])	10	Lv 1
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]	10	Lv 2
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)	10	Lv 1
看	kàn	to 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 for	10	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	10	Lv 1
喜欢	xǐ huān	to like; to be fond of	9	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	9	Lv 1
咖啡	kā fēi	(loanword) coffee; CL:杯[bei1]	8	Lv 8
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]	7	Lv 1
一边	yī biān	one side; either side; on the one hand; on the other hand; doing while	6	Lv 14
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	6	Lv 1

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An 8-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 167 syllables per minute. It's 677 words long, using 197 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 66 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 66 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 很.