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5 things you should NEVER do in China

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2026/03/28
2026/03/28
Speech duration
12min 9s
Unique characters · 82 once
321
Word count
1,564
Average sentence length
8.4
Length
14:28
Unique words · 115 once
309
Syllables per minute
188
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
272
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 112 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 112 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 112

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 112 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 112 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 53%
  • HSK 2 11%
  • HSK 3 9%
  • HSK 4 5%
  • HSK 5 4%
  • HSK 6 3%
  • HSK 7–9 4%
  • Not on HSK 10%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 78% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 85%, HSK 1–9 covers 90%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 230 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; target83Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-58Lv 1
可以kě yǐcan; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good48Lv 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.)46Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my40Lv 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)39Lv 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]35Lv 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]34Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)30Lv 1
中国zhōng guóChina26Lv 15

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 14-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 12 minutes of speech at 188 syllables per minute. It's 1,564 words long, using 309 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 112 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 112 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 不, 可以.