Ep03_Story3 Chinese Idiom Mǎmǎ hūhū | 100 Chinese Stories Series|Comprehensible Input|SUPER BEGINNER

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2023/08/17

2023/08/17

Speech duration: 13min 6s
Unique characters · 36 once: 183
Word count: 1,628
Average sentence length: 7.6
Length: 14:33
Unique words · 35 once: 173
Syllables per minute: 165
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 285
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 59 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 59 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 59

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 59 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 59 sits in the Upper-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.

Lv 1

Lv 6

Lv 24

Lv 59

Lv 64

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 59%
HSK 2 14%
HSK 3 11%
HSK 4 5%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 10%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 88% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 90%, HSK 1–9 covers 90%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 115 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
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])	118	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	75	Lv 1
画	huà	to draw; to paint; picture; painting (CL:幅[fu2],張\|张[zhang1]); to draw (a line) (variant of 劃\|划[hua4]); stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 劃\|划[hua4]); (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 劃\|划[hua4])	71	Lv 16
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]	64	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	53	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	50	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	49	Lv 1
老虎	lǎo hǔ	tiger; CL:隻\|只[zhi1]	48	Lv 51
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]	39	Lv 1
画家	huà jiā	painter; CL:個\|个[ge4]	38	Lv 59
马	mǎ	horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞\|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]; CL:匹[pi3]; surname Ma	33	Lv 6
一	yī	one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit	32	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	32	Lv 1
画画	huà huà	to draw; to paint	31	Lv 64
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	28	Lv 1
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	27	Lv 1
儿子	ér zi	son	26	Lv 4
只	zhǐ	only; merely; just; grain that has begun to ripen; classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc; variant of 隻\|只[zhi1]; variant of 只[zhi3]; variant of 只[zhi3]	26	Lv 1
找	zhǎo	to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change	25	Lv 2
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)	22	Lv 1

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A 15-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 13 minutes of speech at 165 syllables per minute. It's 1,628 words long, using 173 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 59 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 59 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 他, 这个, 画.