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I almost died... (part 1) riding a bike | Advanced Beginner

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/08/26
2026/08/26
Speech duration
7min 11s
Unique characters · 23 once
122
Word count
563
Average sentence length
7.5
Length
9:37
Unique words · 39 once
119
Syllables per minute
108
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
103
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 74 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 74 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 74

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 74 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 74 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 14%
  • HSK 3 6%
  • HSK 4 3%
  • HSK 5 0%
  • HSK 6 2%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 9%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 88% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 90%, HSK 1–9 covers 91%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 91 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my59Lv 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; target35Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)24Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-20Lv 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]15Lv 1
这个zhè gè(pronoun) this; (adjective) this13Lv 1
上shàngused in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above; (bound form) up; upper; above; previous12Lv 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)12Lv 1
没有méi yǒuhaven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be12Lv 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]11Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 10-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 7 minutes of speech at 108 syllables per minute. It's 563 words long, using 119 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 74 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 74 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 很.