Things I did NOT expect to find at my house! - Comprehensible Chinese Input - Lower Intermediate

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2025/11/06

2025/11/06

Speech duration: 6min 40s
Unique characters · 65 once: 176
Word count: 710
Average sentence length: 6.5
Length: 10:17
Unique words · 70 once: 165
Syllables per minute: 142
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 146
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 49 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 49 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 49

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 49 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 49 sits in the Upper-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 21

Lv 49

Lv 81

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 67%
HSK 2 9%
HSK 3 11%
HSK 4 2%
HSK 5 3%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 88% 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 130 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 130 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	75	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	53	Lv 1
耳机	ěr jī	headphones; earphones; telephone receiver	23	Lv 81
看	kàn	to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard; to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for	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
找	zhǎo	to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change	17	Lv 2
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]	16	Lv 1
一	yī	one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit	15	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)	14	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	14	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	13	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	12	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	12	Lv 1
没有	méi yǒu	haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be	12	Lv 1
这	zhè	(pronoun) this; these; (coll.) this; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)	10	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])	9	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-	9	Lv 2
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	8	Lv 1
鞋	xié	shoe; CL:雙\|双[shuang1],隻\|只[zhi1]; variant of 鞋[xie2]	8	Lv 13
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	7	Lv 1

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A 10-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 7 minutes of speech at 142 syllables per minute. It's 710 words long, using 165 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 49 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 49 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 耳机.