Don't help me please! | BEGINNER Chinese | Comprehensible Input

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2025/07/12
2025/07/12
Speech duration
8min 8s
Unique characters · 37 once
149
Word count
1,055
Average sentence length
6.0
Length
10:55
Unique words · 48 once
156
Syllables per minute
184
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
249
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 71 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 71 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 71

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 71 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 71 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 44%
  • HSK 2 9%
  • HSK 3 6%
  • HSK 4 6%
  • HSK 5 8%
  • HSK 6 4%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 21%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 66% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 77%, HSK 1–9 covers 79%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 106 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
这个zhè gè(pronoun) this; (adjective) this95Lv 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]62Lv 1
快递kuài dìexpress delivery37Lv 80
我wǒI; me; my32Lv 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; target31Lv 1
袋子dài zibag31Lv 29
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.)22Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)22Lv 1
拆chāito tear open; to tear down; to tear apart; to open22Lv 41
剪jiǎnto cut as with scissors; to edit (video, audio etc); (bound form) scissors or similar tool; (bound form) to wipe out; to exterminate; surname Jian18Lv 27

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An 11-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 8 minutes of speech at 184 syllables per minute. It's 1,055 words long, using 156 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 71 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 71 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 这个, 是, 快递.