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Why it is Beijing | BEGINNER Chinese | Comprehensible Input

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2025/06/14
2025/06/14
Speech duration
12min 34s
Unique characters · 35 once
202
Word count
1,555
Average sentence length
6.6
Length
13:32
Unique words · 48 once
196
Syllables per minute
179
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
342
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 90 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 90 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 90

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 90 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 90 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 53%
  • HSK 2 11%
  • HSK 3 10%
  • HSK 4 4%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 17%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 78% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 82%, HSK 1–9 covers 83%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 133 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
这个zhè gè(pronoun) this; (adjective) this136Lv 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]82Lv 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; target69Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)67Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my64Lv 1
所以suǒ yǐtherefore; as a result; so; the reason why37Lv 2
有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)34Lv 1
啊ainterjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh!; interjection expressing doubt or requiring answer; Eh?; what?; interjection of surprise or doubt; Eh?; My!; what's up?; interjection or grunt of agreement; uhm; Ah, OK; expression of recognition; Oh, it's you!; modal particle ending sentence, showing affirmation, approval, or consent31Lv 1
嗯ng(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement27Lv 2
北京běi jīngBeijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (abbr. to 京[Jing1])23Lv 92

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 14-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 13 minutes of speech at 179 syllables per minute. It's 1,555 words long, using 196 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 90 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 90 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 这个, 是, 的.