Ep03 Pepper & Carrot | BEGINNER Chinese Series | Comprehensible Input

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2024/12/05

Speech duration: 10min 41s
Unique characters · 53 once: 242
Word count: 1,470
Average sentence length: 6.2
Length: 11:52
Unique words · 68 once: 234
Syllables per minute: 191
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 328
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 53 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 53 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 53

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 53 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 53 sits in the Upper-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 5

Lv 30

Lv 53

Lv 126

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 61%
HSK 2 10%
HSK 3 6%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 4%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 13%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 80% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 87%, HSK 1–9 covers 87%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 162 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	89	Lv 1
她	tā	she	67	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	57	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]	47	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	44	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	44	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	40	Lv 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])	33	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]	31	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	29	Lv 1
比赛	bǐ sài	competition (sports etc); match; to compete; CL:場\|场[chang3],次[ci4]	26	Lv 5
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-	24	Lv 2
个	gè	used in 自個兒\|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]; (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual; variant of 個\|个[ge4]	22	Lv 1
材料	cái liào	(raw) material; data; (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job	21	Lv 46
老板	lǎo bǎn	Robam (brand); boss; business proprietor; variant of 老闆\|老板[lao3 ban3]; CL:個\|个[ge4]	21	Lv 10
钱	qián	coin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩\|两[liang3]; CL:筆\|笔[bi3]; surname Qian	21	Lv 2
拿	ná	to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object); old variant of 拿[na2]; variant of 拿[na2]	20	Lv 2
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)	19	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	18	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	18	Lv 1

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A 12-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 11 minutes of speech at 191 syllables per minute. It's 1,470 words long, using 234 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 53 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 53 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 这个, 她, 的.