Ep03_Story1 Surprised Dating | 100 Chinese Stories Series | Comprehensible Input | SUPER BEGINNER

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2023/06/11

2023/06/11

Speech duration: 14min 8s
Unique characters · 18 once: 143
Word count: 1,393
Average sentence length: 6.2
Length: 15:39
Unique words · 17 once: 129
Syllables per minute: 142
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 323
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 173 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 173 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 173

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 173 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 173 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 2

Lv 6

Lv 33

Lv 173

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 58%
HSK 2 9%
HSK 3 13%
HSK 4 2%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 13%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 83% 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 89 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 89 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	90	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	68	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]	52	Lv 1
试	shì	to test; to try; experiment; examination; test	48	Lv 5
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	43	Lv 1
过	guò	to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-; (experienced action marker); surname Guo	43	Lv 1
橙子	chéng zi	orange	36	Unranked
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	33	Lv 1
新	xīn	new; newly; meso- (chemistry); abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xin	33	Lv 3
好	hǎo	good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello; to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to	32	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	32	Lv 1
用	yòng	to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore; (bound form) expense; outlay	30	Lv 2
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]	30	Lv 1
男朋友	nán péng yǒu	boyfriend	29	Lv 12
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.)	26	Lv 1
喝	hē	to drink; to shout; variant of 嗬[he1]	26	Lv 3
一起	yī qǐ	(in) the same place; together; in company (with); altogether; in total; an instance of; a case of (murder, accident, dispute etc)	25	Lv 2
难过	nán guò	to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult	22	Lv 18
啤酒	pí jiǔ	beer (loanword); CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]	20	Lv 13
火锅	huǒ guō	hotpot; (basketball) a blocked shot; a block	19	Lv 173

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 16-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 14 minutes of speech at 142 syllables per minute. It's 1,393 words long, using 129 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 173 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 173 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 是.