True stories of the judgmental dogs around me - Chinese Comprehensible Input - Intermediate

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2025/11/18

2025/11/18

Speech duration: 5min 42s
Unique characters · 69 once: 206
Word count: 694
Average sentence length: 7.8
Length: 8:12
Unique words · 80 once: 186
Syllables per minute: 172
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 125
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 85 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 85 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 85

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 85 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 85 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 4

Lv 34

Lv 85

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 65%
HSK 2 10%
HSK 3 8%
HSK 4 3%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 4%
Not on HSK 7%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 86% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, 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 149 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 149 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
它	tā	it; it (pronoun for an animal)	47	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	39	Lv 1
狗	gǒu	dog; CL:隻\|只[zhi1],條\|条[tiao2]	34	Lv 4
歧视	qí shì	to discriminate against; discrimination	27	Lv 85
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	21	Lv 1
会	huì	can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]); (bound form) to reckon accounts	20	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	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]	17	Lv 1
她	tā	she	16	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	16	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	16	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.)	14	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	13	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]	12	Lv 1
如果	rú guǒ	if; in case; in the event that	9	Lv 1
说	shuō	to 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]	8	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	7	Lv 1
亚洲	yà zhōu	Asia (abbr. for 亞細亞洲\|亚细亚洲[Ya4 xi4 ya4 Zhou1])	7	Lv 47
什么	shén me	what?; something; anything	7	Lv 1
这	zhè	(pronoun) this; these; (coll.) this; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)	7	Lv 1

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An 8-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 172 syllables per minute. It's 694 words long, using 186 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 85 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 85 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 它, 的, 狗.