Beginner Chinese Story | A boy swam for 4 hours in the sea, really? | Comprehensible input

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2026/09/15

2026/09/15

Speech duration: 11min 34s
Unique characters · 41 once: 189
Word count: 1,265
Average sentence length: 5.3
Length: 13:35
Unique words · 54 once: 182
Syllables per minute: 151
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 329
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 30 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 30 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 30

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 30 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 30 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 13

Lv 30

Lv 45

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 61%
HSK 2 12%
HSK 3 8%
HSK 4 9%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 90% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 91%, HSK 1–9 covers 92%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 124 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
嗯	ng	(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement	73	Lv 2
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	73	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	60	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	51	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	50	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])	45	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
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.)	29	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	28	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	27	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]	22	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	22	Lv 1
他们	tā men	they; them	21	Lv 1
游泳	yóu yǒng	swimming; to swim	20	Lv 28
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	19	Lv 2
真的	zhēn de	really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine; (math.) proper	19	Lv 7
游	yóu	to swim; to walk; to tour; to roam; to travel; variant of 遊\|游[you2]; surname You	18	Lv 30
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	18	Lv 2
因为	yīn wèi	because; owing to; on account of	17	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	17	Lv 1

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A 14-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 12 minutes of speech at 151 syllables per minute. It's 1,265 words long, using 182 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 30 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 30 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 嗯, 对, 的.