Summary of our 2025 - Chinese Comprehensible Input - Advanced Beginner

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/01/07

2026/01/07

Speech duration: 12min 26s
Unique characters · 54 once: 182
Word count: 1,025
Average sentence length: 5.2
Length: 15:24
Unique words · 65 once: 172
Syllables per minute: 108
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 258
Difficulty Pre-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 22 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 22 sits in the Pre-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Pre-Intermediate · 22

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 22 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 22 sits in the Pre-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 10

Lv 22

Lv 62

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 73%
HSK 2 7%
HSK 3 6%
HSK 4 3%
HSK 5 0%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 12%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 88% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, HSK 1–9 covers 88%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 121 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	96	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	49	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	49	Lv 1
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.)	43	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]	40	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	40	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	33	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]	29	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	23	Lv 1
做到	zuò dào	to accomplish; to achieve	22	Lv 10
要	yào	to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) to demand; to coerce; (bound form) important	22	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-	21	Lv 2
吗	ma	(coll.) what?; used in 嗎啡\|吗啡[ma3 fei1]; (question particle for "yes-no" questions)	15	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	14	Lv 1
年	nián	year; grain; harvest (old); CL:個\|个[ge4]; variant of 年[nian2]; surname Nian	13	Lv 2
没有	méi yǒu	haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be	13	Lv 1
不要	bù yào	don't!; must not	12	Lv 3
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)	12	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)	12	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	11	Lv 1

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A 15-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 12 minutes of speech at 108 syllables per minute. It's 1,025 words long, using 172 different words. Difficulty: Pre-Intermediate, Level 22 — it suits Pre-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 22 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 对, 很.