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A story of taking buses in Mexico | Comprehensible input Chinese | Low intermediate

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/02/11
2025/02/11
Speech duration
3min 59s
Unique characters · 67 once
158
Word count
401
Average sentence length
7.0
Length
6:27
Unique words · 62 once
131
Syllables per minute
143
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
82
Difficulty
Upper-Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 45 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 45 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Upper-Intermediate · 45

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 45 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 45 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 9%
  • HSK 3 8%
  • HSK 4 6%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 0%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 88% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 92%, 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 110 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 110 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my28Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)25Lv 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; target15Lv 1
坐zuòto sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit; variant of 座[zuo4]; surname Zuo13Lv 4
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]13Lv 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]12Lv 1
一yīone; 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 digit10Lv 1
觉得jué deto think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)8Lv 1
个人gè rénindividual; personal; oneself7Lv 9
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.)7Lv 1

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A 6-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 4 minutes of speech at 143 syllables per minute. It's 401 words long, using 131 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 45 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 45 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 很, 的.