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Why Chinese People Suddenly Hates This Restaurant? -Chinese Comprehensible Input -Lower Intermediate

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/03/29
2026/03/29
Speech duration
11min 54s
Unique characters · 52 once
217
Word count
1,203
Average sentence length
7.2
Length
13:29
Unique words · 83 once
213
Syllables per minute
140
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
232
Difficulty
Upper-Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 60 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 60 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Upper-Intermediate · 60

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 60 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 60 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 67%
  • HSK 2 7%
  • HSK 3 7%
  • HSK 4 4%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 0%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 10%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 86% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 89%, 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 151 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 151 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; target79Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my77Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)52Lv 1
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.)48Lv 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]36Lv 1
餐厅cān tīngdining hall; dining room; restaurant; CL:間|间[jian1],家[jia1]32Lv 19
多duōmany; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-27Lv 2
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; matching27Lv 1
好hǎogood; 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 to25Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-23Lv 1

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A 13-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 12 minutes of speech at 140 syllables per minute. It's 1,203 words long, using 213 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 60 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 60 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 我, 很.