Why I perform worse when people watch me?

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2026/06/20

2026/06/20

Speech duration: 10min 59s
Unique characters · 34 once: 201
Word count: 1,469
Average sentence length: 7.5
Length: 12:20
Unique words · 44 once: 179
Syllables per minute: 189
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 278
Difficulty Pre-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 20 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 20 sits in the Pre-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Pre-Intermediate · 20

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 20 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 20 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 11

Lv 20

Lv 35

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 64%
HSK 2 13%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 3%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 7%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 91% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 93%, HSK 1–9 covers 93%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 121 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	136	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	78	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	74	Lv 1
她	tā	she	52	Lv 1
好	hǎo	good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello; to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to	42	Lv 1
跳舞	tiào wǔ	to dance	39	Lv 10
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]	35	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	33	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.)	32	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	31	Lv 1
想	xiǎng	to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)	30	Lv 1
说	shuō	to persuade; to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine; variant of 說\|说[shuo1]	28	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	23	Lv 1
时候	shí hòu	time; length of time; moment; period	22	Lv 1
看	kàn	to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard; to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for	22	Lv 1
跳	tiào	to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate	21	Lv 8
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
但是	dàn shì	but; however	19	Lv 1
喜欢	xǐ huān	to like; to be fond of	18	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	18	Lv 2

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A 12-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 11 minutes of speech at 189 syllables per minute. It's 1,469 words long, using 179 different words. Difficulty: Pre-Intermediate, Level 20 — it suits Pre-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 20 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 很, 的.