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The Weirdest Things We Did & Ate as Kids | Advanced beginner @Lazy-Chinese

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/07/28
2026/07/28
Speech duration
15min 44s
Unique characters · 44 once
186
Word count
1,418
Average sentence length
6.3
Length
18:50
Unique words · 50 once
176
Syllables per minute
124
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
311
Difficulty
Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 27 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 27 sits in the Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Intermediate · 27

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 27 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 27 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 73%
  • HSK 2 8%
  • HSK 3 6%
  • HSK 4 1%
  • HSK 5 1%
  • HSK 6 4%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 6%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 88% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 93%, HSK 1–9 covers 94%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 116 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my157Lv 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; target115Lv 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; matching48Lv 1
吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc); variant of 吃[chi1]47Lv 2
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)43Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-34Lv 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.)31Lv 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]29Lv 1
东西dōng xīeast and west; thing; stuff; person; CL:個|个[ge4],件[jian4]25Lv 2
有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)24Lv 1

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A 19-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 16 minutes of speech at 124 syllables per minute. It's 1,418 words long, using 176 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 27 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 27 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 对.