👻 or not? 😂| Comprehensible Input | BEGINNER Chinese

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2023/07/27
2023/07/27
Speech duration
1min 42s
Unique characters · 29 once
85
Word count
265
Average sentence length
5.7
Length
2:28
Unique words · 36 once
85
Syllables per minute
204
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
61
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 64 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 64 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 64

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 64 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 64 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 51%
  • HSK 2 9%
  • HSK 3 5%
  • HSK 4 7%
  • HSK 5 6%
  • HSK 6 5%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 15%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 72% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 83%, HSK 1–9 covers 85%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 72 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
拍pāito pat; to clap; to slap; to swat; to take (a photo); to shoot (a film); racket (sports); beat (music)15Lv 7
她tāshe14Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-11Lv 1
哈哈hā hā(onom.) laughing out loud11Lv 25
我wǒI; me; my11Lv 1
给gěito; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier); to supply; to provide11Lv 1
你nǐyou (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.)10Lv 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]9Lv 1
姑姑gū gūpaternal aunt; CL:個|个[ge4]9Lv 72
的deof; ~'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; target8Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 2-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 2 minutes of speech at 204 syllables per minute. It's 265 words long, using 85 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 64 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 64 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 拍, 她, 不.