4 ways I go back for Spring Festival | INTERMEDIATE Chinese | Comprehensible Input

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2024/12/19

Speech duration: 8min 2s
Unique characters · 30 once: 197
Word count: 1,096
Average sentence length: 7.5
Length: 8:56
Unique words · 53 once: 196
Syllables per minute: 200
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 214
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 44 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 44 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 44

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 44 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 44 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.

Lv 1

Lv 5

Lv 16

Lv 44

Lv 228

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 61%
HSK 2 13%
HSK 3 12%
HSK 4 3%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 88% 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 138 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 138 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	55	Lv 1
的	de	of; ~'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; target	41	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	37	Lv 1
坐	zuò	to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit; variant of 座[zuo4]; surname Zuo	35	Lv 4
个	gè	used in 自個兒\|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]; (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual; variant of 個\|个[ge4]	26	Lv 1
是	shì	to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]	26	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	23	Lv 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]	22	Lv 1
在	zài	to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)	19	Lv 1
长	zhǎng	long; (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4]); chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte; (bound form) to be good at	19	Lv 5
钱	qián	coin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩\|两[liang3]; CL:筆\|笔[bi3]; surname Qian	17	Lv 2
飞机	fēi jī	airplane; CL:架[jia4]	17	Lv 7
但是	dàn shì	but; however	16	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	16	Lv 2
时间	shí jiān	(concept of) time; (duration of) time; (point in) time	16	Lv 2
火车	huǒ chē	train; CL:列[lie4],節\|节[jie2],班[ban1],趟[tang4]	16	Lv 18
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	15	Lv 1
到	dào	to reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point); (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point); considerate; thoughtful; thorough	15	Lv 1
从	cóng	from; through; via; (used before a negative) ever; variant of 從\|从[cong2]; (bound form) to follow; (bound form) to obey; (bound form) to engage in (an activity); (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor; surname Cong	14	Lv 1
可以	kě yǐ	can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good	13	Lv 1

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A 9-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 8 minutes of speech at 200 syllables per minute. It's 1,096 words long, using 196 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 44 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 44 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 很.