How to not swear in Chinese | High intermediate | Comprehensible input @xiaoguachinese

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/03/18
2025/03/18
Speech duration
14min 19s
Unique characters · 86 once
326
Word count
2,561
Average sentence length
6.9
Length
17:06
Unique words · 120 once
333
Syllables per minute
251
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
522
Difficulty
Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 28 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 28 sits in the Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Intermediate · 28

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 28 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 28 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 59%
  • HSK 2 10%
  • HSK 3 6%
  • HSK 4 8%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 12%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 83% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 87%, HSK 1–9 covers 88%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 208 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
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; matching149Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my135Lv 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; target105Lv 1
说shuōto persuade; to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine; variant of 說|说[shuo1]96Lv 1
嗯ng(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement86Lv 2
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]80Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-79Lv 1
会huìcan; 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 accounts60Lv 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.)60Lv 1
就是jiù shìexactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if51Lv 2

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A 17-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 14 minutes of speech at 251 syllables per minute. It's 2,561 words long, using 333 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 28 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 28 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 对, 我, 的.