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Chinese podcast: Is "showing off" acceptable? | Comprehensible input | Intermediate @xiaoguachinese

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2026/02/24
2026/02/24
Speech duration
17min 9s
Unique characters · 142 once
398
Word count
2,852
Average sentence length
6.9
Length
20:31
Unique words · 170 once
387
Syllables per minute
235
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
585
Difficulty
Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 30 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 30 sits in the Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Intermediate · 30

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 30 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 30 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 65%
  • HSK 2 9%
  • HSK 3 9%
  • HSK 4 6%
  • HSK 5 2%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 89% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 91%, HSK 1–9 covers 92%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 239 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my193Lv 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; target175Lv 1
有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)99Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)90Lv 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])81Lv 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]81Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-71Lv 1
觉得jué deto think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)63Lv 1
钱qiáncoin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩|两[liang3]; CL:筆|笔[bi3]; surname Qian61Lv 2
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.)60Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 21-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 17 minutes of speech at 235 syllables per minute. It's 2,852 words long, using 387 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 30 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 30 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 有.