Chinese Listening Practice｜Travel to Tianjin: Exploring Modern History & Architecture（CC Subtitles)

YouTube · Chloe Chinese Class · Learner content · 2026/02/25

2026/02/25

Speech duration: 27min 46s
Unique characters · 5 once: 507
Word count: 2,523
Average sentence length: 9.5
Length: 28:15
Unique words · 12 once: 510
Syllables per minute: 140
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 408
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 157 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 157 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 157

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 157 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 157 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 2

Lv 15

Lv 63

Lv 157

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 47%
HSK 2 8%
HSK 3 12%
HSK 4 8%
HSK 5 8%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 2%
Not on HSK 15%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 74% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 83%, HSK 1–9 covers 85%.

Words to learn first

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Starting from zero (Beginner), learn 428 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 428 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
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	167	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]	72	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)	57	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]	49	Lv 1
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)	45	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	36	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	35	Lv 1
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	34	Lv 1
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	30	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	28	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	28	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	27	Lv 1
中国	zhōng guó	China	25	Lv 15
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-	22	Lv 2
都	dōu	all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all; capital city; metropolis; surname Du	21	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	19	Lv 1
大家	dà jiā	everyone; influential family; great expert	19	Lv 3
就	jiù	(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 著\|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...	18	Lv 1
呢	ne	particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?"); particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?"); particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?"); (at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action; particle indicating strong affirmation; dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)	16	Lv 2
如果	rú guǒ	if; in case; in the event that	16	Lv 1

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A 28-minute video from Chloe Chinese Class with 28 minutes of speech at 140 syllables per minute. It's 2,523 words long, using 510 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 157 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 157 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 是, 这.