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Ep02 Pepper & Carrot | BEGINNER Chinese Series | Comprehensible Input

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2024/11/21
2024/11/21
Speech duration
10min 4s
Unique characters · 43 once
201
Word count
1,340
Average sentence length
7.0
Length
11:06
Unique words · 50 once
193
Syllables per minute
186
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
267
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 126 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 126 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 126

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 126 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 126 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 54%
  • HSK 2 9%
  • HSK 3 11%
  • HSK 4 3%
  • HSK 5 1%
  • HSK 6 5%
  • HSK 7–9 2%
  • Not on HSK 16%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 76% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 83%, HSK 1–9 covers 84%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 134 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
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; target78Lv 1
她tāshe62Lv 1
这个zhè gè(pronoun) this; (adjective) this52Lv 1
药水yào shuǐYaksu in North Korea, near the border with Liaoning and Jiling province; medicine in liquid form; bottled medicine; lotion48Lv 126
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)40Lv 1
在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)35Lv 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]27Lv 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]27Lv 1
颜色yán sècolor; countenance; appearance; facial expression; pigment; dyestuff25Lv 20
喝hēto drink; to shout; variant of 嗬[he1]24Lv 3

Is this video right for my Chinese?

An 11-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 10 minutes of speech at 186 syllables per minute. It's 1,340 words long, using 193 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 126 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 126 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 她, 这个.