Sasa's vlog | Finding My Past in Beijing | Lower intermediate

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/08/22

2026/08/22

Speech duration: 8min 0s
Unique characters · 78 once: 242
Word count: 960
Average sentence length: 7.9
Length: 13:13
Unique words · 114 once: 253
Syllables per minute: 176
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 179
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 57 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 57 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 57

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 57 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 57 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 18

Lv 57

Lv 92

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 59%
HSK 2 15%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 3%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 12%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 87% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, 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 202 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 202 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	67	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	58	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	44	Lv 1
北京	běi jīng	Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (abbr. to 京[Jing1])	27	Lv 92
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]	22	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)	20	Lv 1
以前	yǐ qián	before; formerly; previous; ago	16	Lv 4
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	15	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]	14	Lv 1
这里	zhè lǐ	here; variant of 這裡\|这里[zhe4 li3]	14	Lv 1
但是	dàn shì	but; however	13	Lv 1
地方	de fāng	region; regional (away from the central administration); local; area; place; space; room; territory; CL:處\|处[chu4],個\|个[ge4],塊\|块[kuai4]	13	Lv 2
看	kàn	to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard; to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for	12	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	11	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	11	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	10	Lv 1
喜欢	xǐ huān	to like; to be fond of	9	Lv 1
因为	yīn wèi	because; owing to; on account of	9	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-	9	Lv 2
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	9	Lv 1

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A 13-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 8 minutes of speech at 176 syllables per minute. It's 960 words long, using 253 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 57 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 57 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 很.