Easy Chinese Podcast: Are you stingy? | Comprehensible input | Low intermediate

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/11/18

2025/11/18

Speech duration: 21min 46s
Unique characters · 56 once: 272
Word count: 2,974
Average sentence length: 7.4
Length: 24:17
Unique words · 80 once: 275
Syllables per minute: 190
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 555
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 25 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 25 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 25

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 25 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 25 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 2

Lv 10

Lv 25

Lv 117

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 68%
HSK 2 8%
HSK 3 9%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 89% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 92%, HSK 1–9 covers 92%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 161 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	290	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	125	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	125	Lv 1
他	tā	(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])	98	Lv 1
嗯	ng	(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement	91	Lv 2
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	80	Lv 1
钱	qián	coin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩\|两[liang3]; CL:筆\|笔[bi3]; surname Qian	77	Lv 2
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]	73	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	72	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	67	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.)	66	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	48	Lv 1
因为	yīn wèi	because; owing to; on account of	46	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	40	Lv 2
要	yào	to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) to demand; to coerce; (bound form) important	40	Lv 1
小气	xiǎo qì	stingy; miserly; narrow-minded; petty	38	Lv 117
没有	méi yǒu	haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be	38	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	38	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	36	Lv 1
可是	kě shì	but; however; (used for emphasis) indeed	34	Lv 5

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 24-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 22 minutes of speech at 190 syllables per minute. It's 2,974 words long, using 275 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 25 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 25 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 对, 的.