2024 Recap | Intermediate Chinese | Comprehensible input

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2024/12/24

Speech duration: 9min 30s
Unique characters · 98 once: 273
Word count: 1,173
Average sentence length: 7.5
Length: 11:46
Unique words · 102 once: 240
Syllables per minute: 174
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 221
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 34 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 34 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 34

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 34 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 34 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.

Lv 1

Lv 3

Lv 13

Lv 34

Lv 115

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 66%
HSK 2 9%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 6%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 7%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 90% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 92%, 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 180 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 180 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	110	Lv 1
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	89	Lv 1
非常	fēi cháng	very; really; unusual; extraordinary	43	Lv 2
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	33	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	29	Lv 1
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-	26	Lv 2
嗯	ng	(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement	24	Lv 2
好	hǎo	good; 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 to	20	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]	20	Lv 1
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	19	Lv 1
工作	gōng zuò	to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task; CL:個\|个[ge4],份[fen4],項\|项[xiang4]	18	Lv 3
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]	16	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	16	Lv 2
你们	nǐ men	you (plural)	15	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)	15	Lv 1
年	nián	year; grain; harvest (old); CL:個\|个[ge4]; variant of 年[nian2]; surname Nian	15	Lv 2
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	15	Lv 2
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	15	Lv 1
要	yào	to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) to demand; to coerce; (bound form) important	14	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	14	Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 12-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 10 minutes of speech at 174 syllables per minute. It's 1,173 words long, using 240 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 34 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 34 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 非常.