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My life in Vietnam | Chinese for complete beginners | Comprehensible input

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2026/11/03
2026/11/03
Speech duration
8min 13s
Unique characters · 27 once
122
Word count
682
Average sentence length
6.2
Length
12:46
Unique words · 20 once
97
Syllables per minute
112
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
148
Difficulty
Upper-Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 41 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 41 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Upper-Intermediate · 41

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 41 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 41 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 79%
  • HSK 2 2%
  • HSK 3 1%
  • HSK 4 5%
  • HSK 5 2%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 9%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 87% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 90%, HSK 1–9 covers 91%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 69 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
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; target44Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my39Lv 1
他tā(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])38Lv 1
是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]33Lv 1
东西dōng xīeast and west; thing; stuff; person; CL:個|个[ge4],件[jian4]26Lv 2
个gèused 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]25Lv 1
喜欢xǐ huānto like; to be fond of23Lv 1
在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)23Lv 1
新xīnnew; newly; meso- (chemistry); abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xin23Lv 3
嗯ng(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement22Lv 2

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 13-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 8 minutes of speech at 112 syllables per minute. It's 682 words long, using 97 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 41 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 41 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 我, 他.