Real stories that explains why mothers leave their families - Upper Intermediate Chinese Podcast

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2025/11/05

Speech duration: 20min 28s
Unique characters · 109 once: 403
Word count: 3,339
Average sentence length: 8.5
Length: 23:24
Unique words · 158 once: 427
Syllables per minute: 231
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 557
Difficulty Pre-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 23 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 23 sits in the Pre-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Pre-Intermediate · 23

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 23 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 23 sits in the Pre-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 9

Lv 23

Lv 67

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

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 88% 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 265 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 265 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	224	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	186	Lv 1
她	tā	she	143	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]	90	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])	66	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.)	65	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]	64	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	63	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	60	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	58	Lv 1
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]	55	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	49	Lv 1
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	48	Lv 2
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	46	Lv 1
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	45	Lv 1
孩子	hái zi	child	42	Lv 2
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	42	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)	39	Lv 1
可能	kě néng	might (happen); possible; probable; possibility; probability; maybe; perhaps; CL:個\|个[ge4]	38	Lv 2
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	37	Lv 2

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A 23-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 20 minutes of speech at 231 syllables per minute. It's 3,339 words long, using 427 different words. Difficulty: Pre-Intermediate, Level 23 — it suits Pre-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 23 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 她.