Chinese Podcast｜Decluttering, Selling Second-Hand & Our Inner State｜Chinese Listening Practice (CC)

YouTube · Chloe Chinese Class · Learner content · 2026/01/15

2026/01/15

Speech duration: 25min 27s
Unique characters · 145 once: 520
Word count: 4,566
Average sentence length: 8.2
Length: 25:57
Unique words · 250 once: 606
Syllables per minute: 254
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 784
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.

Lv 1

Lv 4

Lv 24

Lv 60

Lv 182

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 61%
HSK 2 11%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 5%
HSK 5 3%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 9%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 86% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 90%, HSK 1–9 covers 91%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 373 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
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	299	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	274	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]	169	Lv 1
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]	104	Lv 1
你	nǐ	you (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.)	98	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	78	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	78	Lv 1
对	duì	right; 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; matching	75	Lv 1
买	mǎi	to buy; to purchase	73	Lv 3
东西	dōng xī	east and west; thing; stuff; person; CL:個\|个[ge4],件[jian4]	66	Lv 2
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	66	Lv 1
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	65	Lv 2
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)	61	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	60	Lv 1
卖	mài	to sell; to betray; to spare no effort; to show off or flaunt	60	Lv 5
就	jiù	(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 著\|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...	52	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	49	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	45	Lv 1
那	nà	(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case); (archaic) many; beautiful; how; variant of 哪[na3]; old variant of 挪[nuo2]; surname Na; surname Nuo	45	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-	44	Lv 2

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A 26-minute video from Chloe Chinese Class with 25 minutes of speech at 254 syllables per minute. It's 4,566 words long, using 606 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, 是.