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Learn Chinese with Comics - Father and Son ｜SUPPER BEGINNER Chinese | Comprehensible Input

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2025/03/22
2025/03/22
Speech duration
7min 24s
Unique characters · 20 once
102
Word count
766
Average sentence length
4.8
Length
8:57
Unique words · 28 once
108
Syllables per minute
152
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
236
Difficulty
Pre-Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 18 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 18 sits in the Pre-Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Pre-Intermediate · 18

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 18 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 18 sits in the Pre-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 67%
  • HSK 2 14%
  • HSK 3 1%
  • HSK 4 1%
  • HSK 5 1%
  • HSK 6 0%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 15%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 83% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 84%, HSK 1–9 covers 85%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 75 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
儿子ér zison51Lv 4
爸爸bà bà(coll.) father; dad; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]51Lv 2
在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)41Lv 1
吃饭chī fànto have a meal; to eat; to make a living38Lv 14
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 for28Lv 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]21Lv 1
他们tā menthey; them20Lv 1
妈妈mā māmama; mommy; mother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]20Lv 2
等děngto wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun); (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as20Lv 2
去qùto go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)19Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 9-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 7 minutes of speech at 152 syllables per minute. It's 766 words long, using 108 different words. Difficulty: Pre-Intermediate, Level 18 — it suits Pre-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 18 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 儿子, 爸爸, 在.