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Easy Chinese podcast: Men that we wouldn't date because... | Comprehensible input | Intermediate

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2026/04/28
2026/04/28
Speech duration
17min 39s
Unique characters · 91 once
331
Word count
3,084
Average sentence length
7.5
Length
20:51
Unique words · 121 once
338
Syllables per minute
247
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
579
Difficulty
Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 24 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 24 sits in the Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Intermediate · 24

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 24 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 24 sits in the 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 64%
  • HSK 2 10%
  • HSK 3 9%
  • HSK 4 7%
  • HSK 5 2%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 6%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 90% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 93%, HSK 1–9 covers 94%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 200 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my278Lv 1
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; target201Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-116Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)113Lv 1
嗯ng(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement95Lv 2
对duìright; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching78Lv 1
觉得jué deto think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)77Lv 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]75Lv 1
他tā(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])61Lv 1
有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)61Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 21-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 18 minutes of speech at 247 syllables per minute. It's 3,084 words long, using 338 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 24 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 24 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 不.