Talking about my hobbies | Supper Beginner Chinese | Comprehensible Input

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2025/11/01
2025/11/01
Speech duration
3min 38s
Unique characters · 14 once
69
Word count
348
Average sentence length
9.0
Length
4:43
Unique words · 16 once
56
Syllables per minute
145
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
59
Difficulty
Upper-Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 49 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 49 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Upper-Intermediate · 49

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 49 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 49 sits in the Upper-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 56%
  • HSK 2 5%
  • HSK 3 8%
  • HSK 4 10%
  • HSK 5 0%
  • HSK 6 0%
  • HSK 7–9 2%
  • Not on HSK 19%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 79% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 79%, HSK 1–9 covers 81%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 40 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my32Lv 1
这个zhè gè(pronoun) this; (adjective) this32Lv 1
书shūbook; letter; document; to write; abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]; CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4]26Lv 6
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]26Lv 1
历史lì shǐhistory; CL:門|门[men2],段[duan4]23Lv 13
喜欢xǐ huānto like; to be fond of23Lv 1
散步sàn bùto take a walk; to go for a walk17Lv 36
弹dàncrossball; bullet; shot; shell; ball; to pluck (a string); to play (a string instrument); to spring or leap; to shoot (e.g. with a catapult); (of cotton) to fluff or tease; to flick; to flip; to accuse; to impeach; elastic (of materials)12Lv 19
每天měi tiānevery day10Lv 8
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; target10Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 5-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 4 minutes of speech at 145 syllables per minute. It's 348 words long, using 56 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 49 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 49 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 这个, 书.