Ep02_Story2 The Legend of Chinese New Year | 100 Chinese Stories Series | Comprehensible Input

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2023/08/03

2023/08/03

Speech duration: 7min 30s
Unique characters · 21 once: 141
Word count: 773
Average sentence length: 7.7
Length: 8:18
Unique words · 25 once: 125
Syllables per minute: 158
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 154
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 196 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 196 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 196

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 196 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 196 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 1

Lv 8

Lv 110

Lv 196

Lv 231

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 67%
HSK 2 6%
HSK 3 5%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 5%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 82% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, HSK 1–9 covers 89%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 93 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	59	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	47	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)	33	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	29	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	27	Lv 1
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
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]	22	Lv 1
红包	hóng bāo	money wrapped in red as a gift; bonus payment; kickback; bribe	20	Lv 196
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	20	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	19	Lv 1
吃	chī	to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc); variant of 吃[chi1]	14	Lv 2
妈妈	mā mā	mama; mommy; mother; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	13	Lv 2
都	dōu	all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all; capital city; metropolis; surname Du	13	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	12	Lv 1
和	hé	(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence; to join in the singing; to chime in with others; to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards; to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. [huo4]; to mix (ingredients) together; to blend; classifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs; old variant of 和[he2]; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japanese; (literary) harmonious (variant of 和[he2]); surname He	11	Lv 1
姥爷	lǎo yé	maternal grandfather (dialectal)	11	Lv 179
吃饭	chī fàn	to have a meal; to eat; to make a living	10	Lv 14
家人	jiā rén	family member; (old) servant	10	Lv 11
给	gěi	to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier); to supply; to provide	10	Lv 1
地方	de fāng	region; regional (away from the central administration); local; area; place; space; room; territory; CL:處\|处[chu4],個\|个[ge4],塊\|块[kuai4]	9	Lv 2

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An 8-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 8 minutes of speech at 158 syllables per minute. It's 773 words long, using 125 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 196 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 196 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 我, 在.