Slow Chinese | Let's guess part 1 | Let’s guess the country | super beginner

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/05/12

2026/05/12

Speech duration: 4min 51s
Unique characters · 52 once: 119
Word count: 301
Average sentence length: 6.0
Length: 6:48
Unique words · 44 once: 94
Syllables per minute: 85
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 68
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 50 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 50 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 50

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 50 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 50 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 7

Lv 36

Lv 50

Lv 70

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 69%
HSK 2 4%
HSK 3 7%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 13%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 84% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 86%, 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 77 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 77 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)	30	Lv 1
国家	guó jiā	country; nation; state; CL:個\|个[ge4]	15	Lv 7
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
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-	12	Lv 2
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	12	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	10	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	9	Lv 1
越南	yuè nán	Vietnam	9	Lv 50
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)	8	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	8	Lv 1
个	gè	used in 自個兒\|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]; (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual; variant of 個\|个[ge4]	7	Lv 1
也	yě	also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]; surname Ye	7	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.)	7	Lv 1
去	qù	to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)	7	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	6	Lv 1
热	rè	to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); heat; fervent	6	Lv 14
亚洲	yà zhōu	Asia (abbr. for 亞細亞洲\|亚细亚洲[Ya4 xi4 ya4 Zhou1])	5	Lv 47
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)	5	Lv 1
和	hé	(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence; to join in the singing; to chime in with others; to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards; to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. [huo4]; to mix (ingredients) together; to blend; classifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs; old variant of 和[he2]; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japanese; (literary) harmonious (variant of 和[he2]); surname He	4	Lv 1
咖啡	kā fēi	(loanword) coffee; CL:杯[bei1]	4	Lv 8

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A 7-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 5 minutes of speech at 85 syllables per minute. It's 301 words long, using 94 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 50 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 50 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 很, 国家, 是.