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Is Bali boring or the best @xiaoguachinese | Beginner Chinese Podcast | Comprehensible input

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/04/08
2025/04/08
Speech duration
13min 31s
Unique characters · 76 once
251
Word count
1,553
Average sentence length
7.3
Length
14:50
Unique words · 83 once
226
Syllables per minute
170
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
313
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 62 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 62 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 62

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 62 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 62 sits in the Advanced 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 63%
  • HSK 2 7%
  • HSK 3 6%
  • HSK 4 5%
  • HSK 5 1%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 2%
  • Not on HSK 15%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 81% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 84%, HSK 1–9 covers 85%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 146 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my119Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-61Lv 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; target60Lv 1
嗯ng(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement57Lv 2
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; matching53Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)50Lv 1
人rénperson; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]38Lv 1
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.)38Lv 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 to38Lv 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]34Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 15-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 14 minutes of speech at 170 syllables per minute. It's 1,553 words long, using 226 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 62 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 62 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 不, 的.