How was Beijing 30 years ago? | Lower Intermediate

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/06/16

2026/06/16

Speech duration: 6min 22s
Unique characters · 39 once: 165
Word count: 621
Average sentence length: 8.9
Length: 8:43
Unique words · 45 once: 153
Syllables per minute: 145
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 104
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 84 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 84 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 84

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 84 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 84 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 3

Lv 28

Lv 84

Lv 92

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 62%
HSK 2 11%
HSK 3 11%
HSK 4 3%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 87% 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 120 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 120 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	49	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	41	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	24	Lv 1
北京	běi jīng	Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (abbr. to 京[Jing1])	20	Lv 92
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-	18	Lv 2
时候	shí hòu	time; length of time; moment; period	17	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	14	Lv 1
那个	nà gè	that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc); (euph.) menstruation; sex; also pr. [nei4 ge5]	14	Lv 2
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	11	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)	11	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	11	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]	11	Lv 1
都	dōu	all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all; capital city; metropolis; surname Du	11	Lv 1
现在	xiàn zài	now; at present; currently	9	Lv 1
去	qù	to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)	8	Lv 1
搬家	bān jiā	to move house; to relocate; to remove (sth)	8	Lv 39
也	yě	also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]; surname Ye	7	Lv 1
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	7	Lv 2
没有	méi yǒu	haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be	7	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	6	Lv 1

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A 9-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 145 syllables per minute. It's 621 words long, using 153 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 84 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 84 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 很, 我.