Ep01_Story3 Chinese Idiom Mǎmǎ hūhū | 100 Chinese Stories Series|Comprehensible Input|SUPER BEGINNER

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2023/08/10

2023/08/10

Speech duration: 13min 0s
Unique characters · 27 once: 163
Word count: 1,432
Average sentence length: 6.9
Length: 14:38
Unique words · 39 once: 161
Syllables per minute: 142
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 267
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 64 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 64 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 64

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 64 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 64 sits in the Advanced 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 16

Lv 40

Lv 64

Lv 73

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 54%
HSK 2 16%
HSK 3 9%
HSK 4 5%
HSK 5 4%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 85% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 89%, HSK 1–9 covers 89%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 105 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
画	huà	to draw; to paint; picture; painting (CL:幅[fu2],張\|张[zhang1]); to draw (a line) (variant of 劃\|划[hua4]); stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 劃\|划[hua4]); (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 劃\|划[hua4])	110	Lv 16
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])	81	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	47	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]	47	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	46	Lv 1
画画	huà huà	to draw; to paint	45	Lv 64
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	42	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	42	Lv 1
一	yī	one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit	41	Lv 1
只	zhǐ	only; merely; just; grain that has begun to ripen; classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc; variant of 隻\|只[zhi1]; variant of 只[zhi3]; variant of 只[zhi3]	39	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	39	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	33	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]	31	Lv 1
老虎	lǎo hǔ	tiger; CL:隻\|只[zhi1]	30	Lv 51
画家	huà jiā	painter; CL:個\|个[ge4]	22	Lv 59
马	mǎ	horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞\|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]; CL:匹[pi3]; surname Ma	21	Lv 6
想	xiǎng	to 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)	19	Lv 1
匹	pǐ	classifier for horses, mules etc (Taiwan pr. [pi1]); classifier for cloth: bolt; horsepower; classifier for cloth: bolt; (bound form) matching; comparable to; (bound form) alone; single; one of a pair; variant of 匹[pi3]	18	Lv 20
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	17	Lv 1
笔	bǐ	brushstroke; stroke (in painting or calligraphy); (classifier) stroke of a Chinese character; (classifier) sum of money; financial transaction; piece of business; (literary) to write (with a brush or pen); writing brush; writing implement (pen, pencil etc) (CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1]); (bound form) style of writing; literary manner; technique of brushwork	16	Lv 12

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A 15-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 13 minutes of speech at 142 syllables per minute. It's 1,432 words long, using 161 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 64 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 64 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 画, 他, 不.