We Reveal How Our Students Make Us Feel - Angry? Sad? Or Warm? - Intermediate Chinese Podcast

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2025/10/30

2025/10/30

Speech duration: 24min 21s
Unique characters · 105 once: 415
Word count: 3,589
Average sentence length: 7.9
Length: 27:47
Unique words · 156 once: 433
Syllables per minute: 206
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 631
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 26 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 26 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 26

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 26 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 26 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.

Lv 1

Lv 3

Lv 11

Lv 26

Lv 80

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 65%
HSK 2 11%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 4%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 91% 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 264 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 264 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	242	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	229	Lv 1
他	tā	(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])	187	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	139	Lv 1
你	nǐ	you (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.)	74	Lv 1
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]	72	Lv 1
说	shuō	to 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]	62	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	59	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]	58	Lv 1
对	duì	right; 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; matching	58	Lv 1
学生	xué shēng	student; schoolchild	57	Lv 11
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	52	Lv 1
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	50	Lv 2
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	48	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	44	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	43	Lv 2
会	huì	can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]); (bound form) to reckon accounts	42	Lv 1
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	40	Lv 2
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	40	Lv 1
跟	gēn	heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)	39	Lv 2

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A 28-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 24 minutes of speech at 206 syllables per minute. It's 3,589 words long, using 433 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 26 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 26 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 他.