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5. Why Chinese people don’t walk barefoot at home? | SUPER BEGINNER Series - China, Everyday

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2026/04/25
2026/04/25
Speech duration
6min 7s
Unique characters · 25 once
113
Word count
757
Average sentence length
7.4
Length
7:18
Unique words · 28 once
97
Syllables per minute
168
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
139
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 87 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 87 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 87

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 87 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 87 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 65%
  • HSK 2 10%
  • HSK 3 2%
  • HSK 4 6%
  • HSK 5 9%
  • HSK 6 0%
  • HSK 7–9 2%
  • Not on HSK 6%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 84% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 92%, HSK 1–9 covers 94%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 65 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
拖鞋tuō xiéslippers; sandals; flip-flops; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]61Lv 87
的deof; ~'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; target49Lv 1
穿chuānto wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread40Lv 4
我wǒI; me; my39Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-38Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)36Lv 1
你nǐyou (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.)30Lv 1
凉liángthe five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉[Nan2 Liang2] (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421); cool; cold; to let sth cool down25Lv 53
跑pǎo(of an animal) to paw (the ground); to run; to run away; to escape; to run around (on errands etc); (of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate; (verb complement) away; off20Lv 4
在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)18Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 7-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 168 syllables per minute. It's 757 words long, using 97 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 87 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 87 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 拖鞋, 的, 穿.