Our personal stories｜Do Women Need Men to Feel Safe?｜Intermediate

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/08/15

2026/08/15

Speech duration: 25min 40s
Unique characters · 91 once: 384
Word count: 3,832
Average sentence length: 7.8
Length: 27:13
Unique words · 158 once: 439
Syllables per minute: 213
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 696
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 56 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 56 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 56

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 56 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 56 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 12

Lv 56

Lv 125

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 63%
HSK 2 10%
HSK 3 13%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 90% 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 264 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 264 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	404	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	230	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	141	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	97	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]	93	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	87	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	75	Lv 1
会	huì	can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]); (bound form) to reckon accounts	66	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	55	Lv 1
钱	qián	coin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩\|两[liang3]; CL:筆\|笔[bi3]; surname Qian	55	Lv 2
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)	53	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	50	Lv 1
她	tā	she	49	Lv 1
安全感	ān quán gǎn	sense of security	47	Lv 56
可以	kě yǐ	can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good	46	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-	41	Lv 2
没有	méi yǒu	haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be	41	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.)	40	Lv 1
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	39	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]	38	Lv 1

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A 27-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 26 minutes of speech at 213 syllables per minute. It's 3,832 words long, using 439 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 56 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 56 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 很.