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Journey to the west 西游记 EP 01: the rebellious monkey is born | Comprehensible Input | Intermediate

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/01/21
2025/01/21
Speech duration
5min 24s
Unique characters · 92 once
237
Word count
598
Average sentence length
8.8
Length
6:05
Unique words · 105 once
211
Syllables per minute
158
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
97
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 108 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 108 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 108

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 108 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 108 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 53%
  • HSK 2 8%
  • HSK 3 13%
  • HSK 4 5%
  • HSK 5 5%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 2%
  • Not on HSK 13%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 79% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 85%, HSK 1–9 covers 87%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 179 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)28Lv 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; target27Lv 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])18Lv 1
一yīone; 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 digit17Lv 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]16Lv 1
有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)15Lv 1
一个yī gèa; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)13Lv 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)10Lv 1
神仙shén xiānDaoist immortal; supernatural entity; (in modern fiction) fairy, elf, leprechaun etc; fig. lighthearted person10Lv 146
变成biàn chéngto change into; to turn into; to become9Lv 6

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A 6-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 5 minutes of speech at 158 syllables per minute. It's 598 words long, using 211 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 108 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 108 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 很, 的, 他.