台灣鄉村面臨死亡漩渦!該改的是公車? ft.中華顧問工程司

YouTube · PanSci · Native everyday · 2025/12/10
2025/12/10
Speech duration
15min 59s
Unique characters · 295 once
832
Word count
3,019
Average sentence length
11.6
Length
16:21
Unique words · 672 once
1,086
Syllables per minute
293
Script
Traditional 繁
Sentences
402
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 227 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 227 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 227

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 227 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 227 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.

TOCFL coverage

Which TOCFL (TBCL) level each of this video’s words comes from.

  • TOCFL 1 37%
  • TOCFL 2 9%
  • TOCFL 3 6%
  • TOCFL 4 14%
  • TOCFL 5 11%
  • TOCFL 6 6%
  • TOCFL 7 1%
  • Not on TOCFL 16%

Cumulative: TOCFL 1–4 covers 66% of the words, TOCFL 1–6 covers 83%, TOCFL 1–7 covers 84%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 925 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
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; target185Lv 1
在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)50Lv 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]49Lv 1
有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)32Lv 1
服務fú wùto serve; service; CL:項|项[xiang4]32Lv 21
一yīone; 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 digit29Lv 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]28Lv 1
這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)28Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-25Lv 1
人rénperson; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]25Lv 1

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A 16-minute video from PanSci with 16 minutes of speech at 293 syllables per minute. It's 3,019 words long, using 1,086 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 227 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 227 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 在, 是.