A zoo in China doing things better | Intermediate

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2026/04/11

Speech duration: 5min 55s
Unique characters · 71 once: 253
Word count: 831
Average sentence length: 8.6
Length: 7:27
Unique words · 84 once: 218
Syllables per minute: 216
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 149
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 149 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 149 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 149

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 149 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 149 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 1

Lv 6

Lv 34

Lv 149

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 58%
HSK 2 8%
HSK 3 13%
HSK 4 5%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 13%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 84% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 87%, HSK 1–9 covers 87%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 175 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
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	62	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	32	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	24	Lv 1
它	tā	it; it (pronoun for an animal)	23	Lv 1
它们	tā men	they; them	23	Lv 4
动物	dòng wù	animal; CL:隻\|只[zhi1],群[qun2],個\|个[ge4]	21	Lv 12
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	19	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]	18	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)	15	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-	13	Lv 2
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	13	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	12	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]	11	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	11	Lv 2
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	10	Lv 1
做	zuò	to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)	10	Lv 1
动物园	dòng wù yuán	zoo; CL:個\|个[ge4]	10	Lv 56
这些	zhè xiē	these	10	Lv 2
也	yě	also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]; surname Ye	9	Lv 1
保护	bǎo hù	to protect; to defend; to safeguard; protection; CL:種\|种[zhong3]	9	Lv 7

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A 7-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 216 syllables per minute. It's 831 words long, using 218 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 149 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 149 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 很, 我们.