Allergic to Thunder?! "I'm Allergic to ___" in Chinese｜Learn Chinese Podcast｜HSK5 CC SUB (pinyin)

YouTube · Chloe Chinese Class · Learner content · 2026/06/22

2026/06/22

Speech duration: 14min 1s
Unique characters · 129 once: 409
Word count: 2,436
Average sentence length: 9.1
Length: 14:11
Unique words · 179 once: 410
Syllables per minute: 253
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 392
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 90 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 90 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 90

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 90 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 90 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 5

Lv 35

Lv 90

Lv 182

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 57%
HSK 2 8%
HSK 3 9%
HSK 4 5%
HSK 5 8%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 10%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 80% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 89%, HSK 1–9 covers 90%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 288 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	130	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	121	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	120	Lv 1
过敏	guò mǐn	(medicine) allergic; hypersensitive; (fig.) oversensitive; prone to overreact	110	Lv 35
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]	83	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.)	70	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	63	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	42	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	39	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	36	Lv 1
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	35	Lv 2
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	34	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]	32	Lv 1
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	32	Lv 2
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	32	Lv 1
吗	ma	(coll.) what?; used in 嗎啡\|吗啡[ma3 fei1]; (question particle for "yes-no" questions)	31	Lv 1
什么	shén me	what?; something; anything	27	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	26	Lv 1
可能	kě néng	might (happen); possible; probable; possibility; probability; maybe; perhaps; CL:個\|个[ge4]	25	Lv 2
知道	zhī dào	to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]	25	Lv 1

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A 14-minute video from Chloe Chinese Class with 14 minutes of speech at 253 syllables per minute. It's 2,436 words long, using 410 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 90 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 90 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 对, 的.