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2024/02/01

Speech duration: 13min 21s
Unique characters · 23 once: 145
Word count: 1,247
Average sentence length: 9.1
Length: 15:17
Unique words · 39 once: 132
Syllables per minute: 140
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 205
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 62 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 62 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 62

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 62 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 62 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 13

Lv 27

Lv 62

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 50%
HSK 2 21%
HSK 3 12%
HSK 4 1%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 13%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 84% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 87%, HSK 1–9 covers 87%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 82 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	97	Lv 1
重要	zhòng yào	important; significant; major	62	Lv 4
我	wǒ	I; me; my	59	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]	56	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	55	Lv 1
颜色	yán sè	color; countenance; appearance; facial expression; pigment; dyestuff	52	Lv 20
最	zuì	(before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est; (after 之[zhi1]) best or most extreme example (e.g. 世界之最[shi4 jie4 zhi1 zui4] "the greatest in the world"); variant of 最[zui4]; old variant of 最[zui4]	46	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-	45	Lv 2
红色	hóng sè	red (color); revolutionary	38	Lv 21
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	36	Lv 1
绿色	lǜ sè	green	33	Lv 27
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	31	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	27	Lv 2
你们	nǐ men	you (plural)	24	Lv 1
喜欢	xǐ huān	to like; to be fond of	20	Lv 1
橙色	chéng sè	orange (color)	20	Unranked
比	bǐ	Belgium; Belgian; to compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}; ratio; to gesture; (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese); abbr. for 比利時\|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2]; euphemistic variant of 屄[bi1]	20	Lv 3
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.)	19	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]	19	Lv 1
都	dōu	all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all; capital city; metropolis; surname Du	18	Lv 1

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A 15-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 13 minutes of speech at 140 syllables per minute. It's 1,247 words long, using 132 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 62 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 62 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 很, 重要, 我.