I'm cooking for my dog

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2026/01/10

Speech duration: 10min 32s
Unique characters · 50 once: 212
Word count: 1,405
Average sentence length: 6.5
Length: 14:22
Unique words · 62 once: 211
Syllables per minute: 185
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 302
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 76 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 76 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 76

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 76 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 76 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 7

Lv 40

Lv 76

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 53%
HSK 2 8%
HSK 3 11%
HSK 4 3%
HSK 5 6%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 3%
Not on HSK 15%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 75% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 82%, 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 145 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 145 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	92	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	63	Lv 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]	46	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	39	Lv 1
它	tā	it; it (pronoun for an animal)	38	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	35	Lv 1
狗	gǒu	dog; CL:隻\|只[zhi1],條\|条[tiao2]	31	Lv 4
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	30	Lv 1
蘑菇	mó gū	mushroom; to pester; to dawdle	26	Lv 76
切	qiè	to cut; to slice; to carve; (math) tangential; definitely; absolutely (not); (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut!; to grind; to correspond to; (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切[fan3 qie4] system should be applied to the previous two characters); (bound form) close to; (bound form) eager	23	Lv 23
把	bǎ	to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}); handle	23	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	21	Lv 1
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)	21	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]	20	Lv 1
煮	zhǔ	to cook; to boil; variant of 煮[zhu3]	20	Lv 31
现在	xiàn zài	now; at present; currently	20	Lv 1
鱼	yú	used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚\|鲍鱼[bao4 yu2], alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚\|鳄鱼[e4 yu2] and octopi 章魚\|章鱼[zhang1 yu2]); fish (CL:條\|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]); surname Yu	20	Lv 14
吃	chī	to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc); variant of 吃[chi1]	19	Lv 2
小	xiǎo	small; tiny; few; young	19	Lv 2
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-	17	Lv 2

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A 14-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 11 minutes of speech at 185 syllables per minute. It's 1,405 words long, using 211 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 76 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 76 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 这个, 我, 了.