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Bringing 2 Cats From Spain to China Drove Me CRAZY! | Intermediate Chinese

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/05/09
2026/05/09
Speech duration
8min 10s
Unique characters · 76 once
232
Word count
1,013
Average sentence length
9.0
Length
8:44
Unique words · 103 once
231
Syllables per minute
172
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
155
Difficulty
Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 33 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 33 sits in the Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Intermediate · 33

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 33 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 33 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 65%
  • HSK 2 11%
  • HSK 3 10%
  • HSK 4 3%
  • HSK 5 2%
  • HSK 6 0%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 89% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 91%, HSK 1–9 covers 92%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 180 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my101Lv 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; target64Lv 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]30Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)28Lv 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)25Lv 1
猫māo(dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword) (coll.) modem; used in 貓腰|猫腰[mao2 yao1]; cat (CL:隻|只[zhi1])21Lv 11
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]19Lv 1
可以kě yǐcan; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good18Lv 1
所以suǒ yǐtherefore; as a result; so; the reason why18Lv 2
只zhǐonly; merely; just; grain that has begun to ripen; classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc; variant of 隻|只[zhi1]; variant of 只[zhi3]; variant of 只[zhi3]17Lv 1

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A 9-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 8 minutes of speech at 172 syllables per minute. It's 1,013 words long, using 231 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 33 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 33 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 了.