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Chinese podcast | Parenting in Taiwan and mailand China ft.janesmandarin | Comprehensible input

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2026/09/29
2026/09/29
Speech duration
27min 51s
Unique characters · 121 once
454
Word count
4,785
Average sentence length
7.7
Length
31:47
Unique words · 185 once
499
Syllables per minute
244
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
881
Difficulty
Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 24 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 24 sits in the Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Intermediate · 24

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 24 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 24 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 61%
  • HSK 2 10%
  • HSK 3 9%
  • HSK 4 8%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 88% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 92%, 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 284 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 284 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my398Lv 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; target286Lv 1
对duìright; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching196Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)128Lv 1
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]114Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-105Lv 1
嗯ng(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement105Lv 2
你nǐyou (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.)102Lv 1
他们tā menthey; them95Lv 1
就是jiù shìexactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if83Lv 2

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 32-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 28 minutes of speech at 244 syllables per minute. It's 4,785 words long, using 499 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 24 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 24 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 对.