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How to decline alcohol in China | Comprehensible input Chinese | Lower intermediate @xiaoguachinese

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/01/07
2025/01/07
Speech duration
5min 1s
Unique characters · 59 once
156
Word count
549
Average sentence length
7.7
Length
7:15
Unique words · 64 once
142
Syllables per minute
152
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
99
Difficulty
Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 sits in the Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Intermediate · 31

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 70%
  • HSK 2 5%
  • HSK 3 8%
  • HSK 4 3%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 10%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 86% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 90%, HSK 1–9 covers 90%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 114 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
你nǐyou (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.)40Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my35Lv 1
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; target23Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-19Lv 1
说shuōto 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]19Lv 1
喝hēto drink; to shout; variant of 嗬[he1]15Lv 3
会huìcan; 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 accounts14Lv 1
可以kě yǐcan; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good13Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)11Lv 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])10Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 7-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 5 minutes of speech at 152 syllables per minute. It's 549 words long, using 142 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 31 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 你, 我, 的.