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Chinese people Shouldn’t give FOREIGNER PRIVILEGE to my Boyfriend - Intermediate Chinese Podcast

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2025/11/17
2025/11/17
Speech duration
7min 31s
Unique characters · 72 once
245
Word count
1,026
Average sentence length
7.6
Length
9:20
Unique words · 109 once
247
Syllables per minute
192
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
189
Difficulty
Upper-Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 55 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 55 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Upper-Intermediate · 55

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 55 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 55 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 64%
  • HSK 2 11%
  • HSK 3 7%
  • HSK 4 4%
  • HSK 5 2%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 85% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 89%, HSK 1–9 covers 89%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 192 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my91Lv 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])38Lv 1
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; target32Lv 1
是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]28Lv 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]23Lv 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.)23Lv 1
在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)23Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)23Lv 1
说shuōto 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]23Lv 1
就jiù(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 著|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...22Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 9-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 8 minutes of speech at 192 syllables per minute. It's 1,026 words long, using 247 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 55 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 55 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 他, 的.