170.Frequency Adverbs in Chinese | Grammar + Shadowing Practice(HSK2,3)

YouTube · Story Learning Chinese with Annie · Learner content · 2026/03/20

2026/03/20

Speech duration: 16min 42s
Unique characters · 59 once: 265
Word count: 1,413
Average sentence length: 17.0
Length: 17:09
Unique words · 63 once: 239
Syllables per minute: 124
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 122
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 39 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 39 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 39

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 39 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 39 sits in the 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 30

Lv 39

Lv 81

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 67%
HSK 2 8%
HSK 3 11%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 0%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 9%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 91% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 91%, 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 172 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 172 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	105	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	78	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.)	74	Lv 1
常常	cháng cháng	frequently; often	45	Lv 30
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	32	Lv 1
那	nà	(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case); (archaic) many; beautiful; how; variant of 哪[na3]; old variant of 挪[nuo2]; surname Na; surname Nuo	30	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)	26	Lv 1
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)	23	Lv 1
总是	zǒng shì	always	23	Lv 5
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]	22	Lv 1
做	zuò	to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)	21	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	18	Lv 1
什么	shén me	what?; something; anything	18	Lv 1
想	xiǎng	to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)	17	Lv 1
偶尔	ǒu ěr	occasionally; once in a while; sometimes	16	Lv 33
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-	16	Lv 2
每天	měi tiān	every day	16	Lv 8
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	15	Lv 1
衣服	yī fú	clothes; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]	15	Lv 5
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	14	Lv 1

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A 17-minute video from Story Learning Chinese with Annie with 17 minutes of speech at 124 syllables per minute. It's 1,413 words long, using 239 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 39 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 39 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 你.