Easy Mandarin podcast: Why you shouldn't swear in Taiwan | Comprehensible input | Intermediate

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/09/09
2025/09/09
Speech duration
17min 17s
Unique characters · 91 once
357
Word count
2,481
Average sentence length
6.5
Length
19:50
Unique words · 132 once
363
Syllables per minute
205
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
544
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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 61%
  • HSK 2 8%
  • HSK 3 9%
  • HSK 4 6%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 12%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 83% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 87%, HSK 1–9 covers 88%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 233 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my135Lv 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; matching110Lv 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; target95Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)75Lv 1
说shuōto persuade; to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine; variant of 說|说[shuo1]66Lv 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]63Lv 1
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.)54Lv 1
觉得jué deto think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)51Lv 1
嗯ng(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement50Lv 2
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-49Lv 1

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A 20-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 17 minutes of speech at 205 syllables per minute. It's 2,481 words long, using 363 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, 对, 的.