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Beginner Chinese conversation: How much do you know about Vietnam? | Comprehensible Input

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2026/07/07
2026/07/07
Speech duration
19min 37s
Unique characters · 62 once
283
Word count
2,317
Average sentence length
5.5
Length
23:10
Unique words · 98 once
285
Syllables per minute
160
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
568
Difficulty
Upper-Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 50 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 50 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Upper-Intermediate · 50

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 50 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 50 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 61%
  • HSK 2 8%
  • HSK 3 8%
  • HSK 4 10%
  • HSK 5 1%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 86% 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 172 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 172 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
嗯ng(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement161Lv 2
的deof; ~'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; target134Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my108Lv 1
对duìright; 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; matching102Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)101Lv 1
是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]99Lv 1
好hǎogood; 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 to72Lv 1
越南yuè nánVietnam67Lv 50
个gèused 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]64Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-58Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 23-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 20 minutes of speech at 160 syllables per minute. It's 2,317 words long, using 285 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 50 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 50 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 嗯, 的, 我.