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2025/02/18

Speech duration: 5min 48s
Unique characters · 43 once: 163
Word count: 578
Average sentence length: 6.1
Length: 8:13
Unique words · 53 once: 141
Syllables per minute: 146
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 139
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 34 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 34 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 34

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 34 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 34 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.

Lv 1

Lv 4

Lv 15

Lv 34

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 62%
HSK 2 10%
HSK 3 9%
HSK 4 5%
HSK 5 0%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 13%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 86% 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 109 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 109 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	37	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	26	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	23	Lv 1
嗯	ng	(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement	19	Lv 2
非常	fēi cháng	very; really; unusual; extraordinary	18	Lv 2
吐痰	tǔ tán	to spit; to expectorate	17	Unranked
你	nǐ	you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2]); you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)	15	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	13	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)	12	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-	12	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]	12	Lv 1
中国	zhōng guó	China	11	Lv 15
飞机	fēi jī	airplane; CL:架[jia4]	11	Lv 7
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])	10	Lv 1
次	cì	next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard; order; sequence; hypo- (chemistry); classifier for enumerated events: time	10	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	10	Lv 1
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	9	Lv 1
舒服	shū fú	comfortable; feeling well	9	Lv 12
要	yào	to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) to demand; to coerce; (bound form) important	8	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]	7	Lv 1

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An 8-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 146 syllables per minute. It's 578 words long, using 141 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 34 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 34 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 很, 的.