Where did the dog go? (PART 2) | easy story in Chinese - Advanced Beginner Chinese Podcast

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/03/12

2026/03/12

Speech duration: 9min 49s
Unique characters · 34 once: 164
Word count: 1,006
Average sentence length: 6.2
Length: 13:10
Unique words · 36 once: 144
Syllables per minute: 141
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 224
Difficulty Pre-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 19 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 19 sits in the Pre-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Pre-Intermediate · 19

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 19 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 19 sits in the Pre-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.

Lv 1

Lv 4

Lv 13

Lv 19

Lv 34

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 72%
HSK 2 9%
HSK 3 5%
HSK 4 1%
HSK 5 4%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 9%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 87% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 91%, HSK 1–9 covers 91%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 101 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
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)	50	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	50	Lv 1
他们	tā men	they; them	49	Lv 1
狗	gǒu	dog; CL:隻\|只[zhi1],條\|条[tiao2]	44	Lv 4
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-	33	Lv 2
猫	māo	(dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword) (coll.) modem; used in 貓腰\|猫腰[mao2 yao1]; cat (CL:隻\|只[zhi1])	32	Lv 11
这里	zhè lǐ	here; variant of 這裡\|这里[zhe4 li3]	29	Lv 1
吗	ma	(coll.) what?; used in 嗎啡\|吗啡[ma3 fei1]; (question particle for "yes-no" questions)	25	Lv 1
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.)	23	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]	23	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	23	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	21	Lv 1
主人	zhǔ rén	master; host; owner; CL:個\|个[ge4]	21	Lv 19
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	21	Lv 1
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]	20	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	20	Lv 1
追	zhuī	to sculpt; to carve; musical instrument (old); to chase; to pursue; to look into; to investigate; to reminisce; to recall; to court (one's beloved); to binge-watch (a TV drama); retroactively; posthumously	20	Lv 13
它	tā	it; it (pronoun for an animal)	17	Lv 1
忙	máng	busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush	17	Lv 8
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	16	Lv 1

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A 13-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 10 minutes of speech at 141 syllables per minute. It's 1,006 words long, using 144 different words. Difficulty: Pre-Intermediate, Level 19 — it suits Pre-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 19 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 在, 很, 他们.