I felt a little unsafe that night | BEGINNER

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2026/05/09
2026/05/09
Speech duration
5min 32s
Unique characters · 30 once
117
Word count
671
Average sentence length
6.9
Length
6:34
Unique words · 34 once
104
Syllables per minute
166
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
133
Difficulty
Pre-Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 14 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 14 sits in the Pre-Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Pre-Intermediate · 14

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 14 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 14 sits in the Pre-Intermediate range.

TAGSLearner contentLanguage lessonStory

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 69%
  • HSK 2 13%
  • HSK 3 7%
  • HSK 4 1%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 0%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 7%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 90% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 93%, HSK 1–9 covers 93%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 71 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my61Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-49Lv 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])37Lv 1
在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)23Lv 1
走zǒuto walk; to go; to run; to move (of vehicle); to visit; to leave; to go away; to die (euph.); from; through; away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]); to change (shape, form, meaning)21Lv 2
想xiǎngto think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)18Lv 1
然后rán hòuthen; after that; afterwards18Lv 2
这里zhè lǐhere; variant of 這裡|这里[zhe4 li3]18Lv 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]17Lv 1
喝酒hē jiǔto drink (alcohol)16Lv 14

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A 7-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 166 syllables per minute. It's 671 words long, using 104 different words. Difficulty: Pre-Intermediate, Level 14 — it suits Pre-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 14 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 不, 他.