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He made 1000$/day selling Chinese pizza in California | lower intermediate | news story part 1

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/05/30
2026/05/30
Speech duration
17min 15s
Unique characters · 63 once
276
Word count
2,121
Average sentence length
6.2
Length
19:27
Unique words · 85 once
271
Syllables per minute
162
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
451
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 70 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 70 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 70

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 70 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 70 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

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

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 84% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, 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 175 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 175 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; target108Lv 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])102Lv 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; matching92Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)66Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my66Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-49Lv 1
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]49Lv 1
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]48Lv 1
人rénperson; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]43Lv 1
饼bǐnground flat cake; cookie; cake; pastry; CL:張|张[zhang1]41Lv 23

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A 19-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 17 minutes of speech at 162 syllables per minute. It's 2,121 words long, using 271 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 70 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 70 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 他, 对.