Why we always use one standard?

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2025/12/21

Speech duration: 19min 28s
Unique characters · 70 once: 295
Word count: 2,998
Average sentence length: 7.3
Length: 22:27
Unique words · 92 once: 286
Syllables per minute: 221
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 594
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 31

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 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 2

Lv 13

Lv 31

Lv 64

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

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

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 87% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 89%, HSK 1–9 covers 90%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 163 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	232	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	203	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	148	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	141	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	112	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	105	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.)	104	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]	97	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	61	Lv 2
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	51	Lv 1
标准	biāo zhǔn	standard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard; good; correct; conforming to a standard	51	Lv 34
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	51	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	38	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-	37	Lv 2
一样	yī yàng	same; like; equal to; the same as; just like	35	Lv 2
他们	tā men	they; them	35	Lv 1
想	xiǎng	to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)	34	Lv 1
做	zuò	to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)	33	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]	33	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	31	Lv 1

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A 22-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 19 minutes of speech at 221 syllables per minute. It's 2,998 words long, using 286 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 31 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 很.