Comprehensible input Chinese｜How I fell off my skateboard

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/04/18

2026/04/18

Speech duration: 5min 31s
Unique characters · 29 once: 127
Word count: 466
Average sentence length: 5.7
Length: 7:15
Unique words · 26 once: 110
Syllables per minute: 120
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 116
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 64 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 64 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 64

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 64 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 64 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.

Lv 1

Lv 6

Lv 44

Lv 64

Lv 65

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 55%
HSK 2 13%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 6%
HSK 5 4%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 12%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 85% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, HSK 1–9 covers 88%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 87 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	32	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	30	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]	27	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	18	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	17	Lv 1
滑板	huá bǎn	skateboard	15	Lv 65
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	15	Lv 1
滑	huá	to slip; to slide; slippery; smooth; sly; slippery; not to be trusted; surname Hua	14	Lv 27
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]	10	Lv 1
张	zhāng	to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes; surname Zhang	9	Lv 4
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	9	Lv 2
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	9	Lv 1
毛衣	máo yī	(wool) sweater; CL:件[jian4]	9	Lv 54
照片	zhào piàn	photograph; picture; CL:張\|张[zhang1],套[tao4],幅[fu2]	8	Lv 5
一	yī	one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit	7	Lv 1
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	6	Lv 1
但是	dàn shì	but; however	6	Lv 1
厚	hòu	thick; deep or profound; kind; generous; rich or strong in flavor; to favor; to stress	6	Lv 49
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	6	Lv 1
这	zhè	(pronoun) this; these; (coll.) this; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)	6	Lv 1

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A 7-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 120 syllables per minute. It's 466 words long, using 110 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 64 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 64 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 是.