Both Are Olympic Champions. So Why Are They Seen So Differently? -Upper Intermediate Chinese Podcast

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/03/26

2026/03/26

Speech duration: 12min 47s
Unique characters · 126 once: 387
Word count: 1,901
Average sentence length: 8.8
Length: 14:08
Unique words · 165 once: 371
Syllables per minute: 212
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 308
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 75 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 75 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 75

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 75 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 75 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 4

Lv 24

Lv 75

Lv 135

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 59%
HSK 2 10%
HSK 3 9%
HSK 4 6%
HSK 5 5%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 84% 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 274 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 274 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
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	122	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	96	Lv 1
她	tā	she	88	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	58	Lv 1
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	48	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]	40	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	33	Lv 1
会	huì	can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]); (bound form) to reckon accounts	32	Lv 1
呢	ne	particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?"); particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?"); particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?"); (at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action; particle indicating strong affirmation; dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)	31	Lv 2
自己	zì jǐ	oneself; one's own	30	Lv 1
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	28	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	25	Lv 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]	23	Lv 1
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)	23	Lv 1
跟	gēn	heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)	21	Lv 2
多	duō	many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-	19	Lv 2
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	19	Lv 2
那	nà	(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case); (archaic) many; beautiful; how; variant of 哪[na3]; old variant of 挪[nuo2]; surname Na; surname Nuo	19	Lv 1
什么	shén me	what?; something; anything	18	Lv 1
去	qù	to 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)	18	Lv 1

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A 14-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 13 minutes of speech at 212 syllables per minute. It's 1,901 words long, using 371 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 75 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 75 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 我, 她.