ask friends to break up @xiaoguachinese | Comprehensible input | Intermediate

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2025/02/04

Speech duration: 8min 9s
Unique characters · 101 once: 293
Word count: 1,317
Average sentence length: 8.4
Length: 10:22
Unique words · 128 once: 282
Syllables per minute: 231
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 223
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 25 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 25 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 25

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 25 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 25 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 3

Lv 14

Lv 25

Lv 44

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 59%
HSK 2 8%
HSK 3 9%
HSK 4 8%
HSK 5 6%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 7%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 85% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 92%, HSK 1–9 covers 93%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 217 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	92	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
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.)	54	Lv 1
嗯	ng	(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement	33	Lv 2
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	31	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]	27	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	26	Lv 1
分手	fēn shǒu	to part company; to split up; to break up	24	Lv 14
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	23	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	23	Lv 1
会	huì	can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]); (bound form) to reckon accounts	21	Lv 1
他们	tā men	they; them	20	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	20	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]	19	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	18	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]	17	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])	17	Lv 1
想	xiǎng	to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)	17	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	17	Lv 1
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	16	Lv 2

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A 10-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 8 minutes of speech at 231 syllables per minute. It's 1,317 words long, using 282 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 25 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 25 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 你.