Ep03_Story2 The Legend of Chinese New Year | 100 Chinese Stories Series | Comprehensible Input

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2023/08/07

2023/08/07

Speech duration: 2min 29s
Unique characters · 19 once: 72
Word count: 290
Average sentence length: 6.7
Length: 2:54
Unique words · 23 once: 62
Syllables per minute: 151
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 56
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 59 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 59 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 59

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 59 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 59 sits in the Upper-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 13

Lv 31

Lv 59

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 65%
HSK 2 6%
HSK 3 3%
HSK 4 7%
HSK 5 13%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 5%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 81% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 95%, HSK 1–9 covers 95%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 48 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
福	fú	good fortune; happiness; luck; abbr. for Fujian province 福建省[Fu2 jian4 Sheng3]; surname Fu	25	Lv 59
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	22	Lv 1
字	zì	letter; symbol; character; word; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China; CL:個\|个[ge4]	20	Lv 13
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]	16	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	14	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	12	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	12	Lv 1
贴	tiē	to stick; to paste; to post (e.g. on a blog); to keep close to; to fit snugly; to subsidize; allowance (e.g. money for food or housing); sticker; classifier for sticking plaster: strip	12	Lv 31
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	11	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	11	Lv 1
倒	dào	to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit; to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet	9	Lv 13
到	dào	to reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point); (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point); considerate; thoughtful; thorough	9	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-	9	Lv 2
幸福	xìng fú	happiness; happy; blessed	9	Lv 20
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]	7	Lv 1
过来	guò lái	to come over; to manage; to handle; to be able to take care of; see 過來\|过来[guo4 lai2]	7	Lv 3
时候	shí hòu	time; length of time; moment; period	6	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	5	Lv 1
好	hǎo	good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello; to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to	4	Lv 1
来	lái	to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來\|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來\|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世\|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來\|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來\|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])	4	Lv 1

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A 3-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 2 minutes of speech at 151 syllables per minute. It's 290 words long, using 62 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 59 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 59 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 福, 很, 字.