Do we hate each other | Beginner Chinese podcast | Comprehensible input

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2025/05/20

Speech duration: 13min 22s
Unique characters · 63 once: 256
Word count: 1,800
Average sentence length: 7.4
Length: 15:46
Unique words · 89 once: 247
Syllables per minute: 191
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 345
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 31

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 sits in the 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 2

Lv 14

Lv 31

Lv 126

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 67%
HSK 2 6%
HSK 3 9%
HSK 4 5%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 1%
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 154 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 154 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	115	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	104	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]	74	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	69	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	62	Lv 1
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	58	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	46	Lv 1
嗯	ng	(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement	46	Lv 2
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.)	45	Lv 1
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	43	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	41	Lv 1
台湾	tái wān	Taiwan; variant of 臺灣\|台湾[Tai2 wan1]	37	Lv 126
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)	31	Lv 1
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]	31	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	30	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-	29	Lv 2
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)	27	Lv 1
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	25	Lv 2
他们	tā men	they; them	24	Lv 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])	23	Lv 1

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A 16-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 13 minutes of speech at 191 syllables per minute. It's 1,800 words long, using 247 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 31 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 是.