Chinese classical dance challenge | Beginner Chinese| Comprehensible Input

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2025/10/11

Speech duration: 6min 45s
Unique characters · 85 once: 252
Word count: 922
Average sentence length: 7.4
Length: 11:46
Unique words · 86 once: 222
Syllables per minute: 199
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 182
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 43 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 43 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 43

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 43 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 43 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 6

Lv 22

Lv 43

Lv 189

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 55%
HSK 2 13%
HSK 3 12%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 84% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, 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 175 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 175 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	50	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	49	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	41	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]	30	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]	30	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	25	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	24	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	22	Lv 1
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	17	Lv 2
跳	tiào	to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate	13	Lv 8
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)	12	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	12	Lv 2
表演	biǎo yǎn	play; show; performance; exhibition; to perform; to act; to demonstrate; CL:場\|场[chang3]	12	Lv 9
走	zǒu	to walk; to go; to run; to move (of vehicle); to visit; to leave; to go away; to die (euph.); from; through; away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]); to change (shape, form, meaning)	12	Lv 2
去	qù	to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)	11	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	11	Lv 1
跳舞	tiào wǔ	to dance	11	Lv 10
但是	dàn shì	but; however	10	Lv 1
多	duō	many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-	9	Lv 2
点	diǎn	to touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list); to order (food etc); to select; to mention; to bring up (a topic or person); to hint at; to imply; to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops; to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite; to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down; point; dot; spot; speck; dot stroke in Chinese characters; (math.) decimal point; point in time or space; (after a number) o'clock; a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more; classifier for small amounts	9	Lv 1

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A 12-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 7 minutes of speech at 199 syllables per minute. It's 922 words long, using 222 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 43 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 43 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 这个.