What Daily Things Are Necessary to Meet a Friend? | Comprehensible Input | BEGINNER Chinese

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2023/09/21

2023/09/21

Speech duration: 10min 31s
Unique characters · 46 once: 204
Word count: 1,277
Average sentence length: 8.9
Length: 12:10
Unique words · 63 once: 197
Syllables per minute: 165
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 195
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 112 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 112 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 112

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 112 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 112 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 6

Lv 33

Lv 112

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 52%
HSK 2 10%
HSK 3 15%
HSK 4 3%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 18%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 79% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 82%, HSK 1–9 covers 82%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 132 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	105	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	78	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	49	Lv 1
包	bāo	to cover; to wrap; to hold; to include; to take charge of; to contract (to or for); package; wrapper; container; bag; to hold or embrace; bundle; packet; CL:個\|个[ge4],隻\|只[zhi1]; surname Bao	38	Lv 13
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]	35	Lv 1
里	lǐ	lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏\|里[li3]; Li (surname); li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮\|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰\|邻[lin2] levels; variant of 裡\|里[li3]	35	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	34	Lv 1
放	fàng	to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)	34	Lv 3
带	dài	band; belt; girdle; ribbon; tire; area; zone; region; to wear; to carry; to take along; to bear (i.e. to have); to lead; to bring; to look after; to raise; CL:條\|条[tiao2]	31	Lv 3
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)	27	Lv 1
把	bǎ	to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}); handle	27	Lv 1
一	yī	one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit	25	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]	21	Lv 1
唇膏	chún gāo	lip balm; lipstick	19	Unranked
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	18	Lv 1
纸巾	zhǐ jīn	paper towel; napkin; facial tissue; CL:張\|张[zhang1],包[bao1]	16	Lv 73
小包	xiǎo bāo	packet	15	Unranked
糖	táng	sugar; sweets; candy; CL:顆\|颗[ke1],塊\|块[kuai4]; old variant of 糖[tang2]	15	Lv 29
写	xiě	to write; used in 寫意\|写意[xie4 yi4]	14	Lv 4
支	zhī	to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; branch; division; to draw money; classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions; surname Zhi	14	Lv 11

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A 12-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 11 minutes of speech at 165 syllables per minute. It's 1,277 words long, using 197 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 112 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 112 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 这个, 的.