Where did the dog go? (PART 1) | easy story in Chinese - Advanced Beginner Chinese Podcast

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/03/07

2026/03/07

Speech duration: 5min 15s
Unique characters · 29 once: 117
Word count: 466
Average sentence length: 6.0
Length: 7:29
Unique words · 31 once: 106
Syllables per minute: 127
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 111
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 26 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 26 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 26

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 26 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 26 sits in the Intermediate range.

TAGSLearner contentStoryTravel

Open on YouTube SOURCEYouTube

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 4

Lv 14

Lv 26

Lv 36

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 80%
HSK 2 9%
HSK 3 3%
HSK 4 1%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 5%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 93% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 95%, HSK 1–9 covers 95%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 83 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
他们	tā men	they; them	36	Lv 1
去	qù	to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)	23	Lv 1
在	zài	to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)	19	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	15	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	14	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	14	Lv 1
这里	zhè lǐ	here; variant of 這裡\|这里[zhe4 li3]	14	Lv 1
狗	gǒu	dog; CL:隻\|只[zhi1],條\|条[tiao2]	13	Lv 4
猫	māo	(dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword) (coll.) modem; used in 貓腰\|猫腰[mao2 yao1]; cat (CL:隻\|只[zhi1])	13	Lv 11
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-	12	Lv 2
上学	shàng xué	to go to school; to attend school	10	Lv 21
也	yě	also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]; surname Ye	10	Lv 1
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	10	Lv 1
上班	shàng bān	to go to work; to be on duty; to start work; to go to the office	9	Lv 14
学生	xué shēng	student; schoolchild	8	Lv 11
一起	yī qǐ	(in) the same place; together; in company (with); altogether; in total; an instance of; a case of (murder, accident, dispute etc)	7	Lv 2
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.)	7	Lv 1
坐	zuò	to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit; variant of 座[zuo4]; surname Zuo	7	Lv 4
学校	xué xiào	school; CL:所[suo3]	7	Lv 5
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]	7	Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 7-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 5 minutes of speech at 127 syllables per minute. It's 466 words long, using 106 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 26 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 26 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 他们, 去, 在.