How Taiwan and mailand China translate things differently | Comprehensible input | Intermediate

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2026/09/08

Speech duration: 17min 24s
Unique characters · 88 once: 340
Word count: 2,539
Average sentence length: 6.9
Length: 21:15
Unique words · 125 once: 341
Syllables per minute: 211
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 532
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 60 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 60 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 60

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 60 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 60 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 3

Lv 21

Lv 60

Lv 228

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 59%
HSK 2 7%
HSK 3 9%
HSK 4 7%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 14%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 81% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 85%, HSK 1–9 covers 86%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 207 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
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	130	Lv 1
对	duì	right; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching	126	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]	103	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	102	Lv 1
嗯	ng	(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement	88	Lv 2
说	shuō	to 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]	73	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	70	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	55	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	42	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	36	Lv 1
你	nǐ	you (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.)	35	Lv 1
好	hǎo	good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello; to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to	35	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	34	Lv 1
台湾	tái wān	Taiwan; variant of 臺灣\|台湾[Tai2 wan1]	34	Lv 126
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)	34	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	30	Lv 2
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	29	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	29	Lv 1
叫	jiào	to shout; to call; to order; to ask; to be called; by (indicates agent in the passive mood); variant of 叫[jiao4]	28	Lv 2
名字	míng zì	name (of a person or thing); CL:個\|个[ge4]	27	Lv 3

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 21-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 17 minutes of speech at 211 syllables per minute. It's 2,539 words long, using 341 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 60 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 60 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 对, 是.