Story9 The old man and the horse | SUPER BEGINNER | Series - 100 Chinese Stories

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2026/06/06

2026/06/06

Speech duration: 5min 50s
Unique characters · 8 once: 73
Word count: 620
Average sentence length: 6.5
Length: 6:44
Unique words · 9 once: 66
Syllables per minute: 140
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 126
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 36 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 36 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 36

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 36 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 36 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 4

Lv 28

Lv 36

Lv 49

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 57%
HSK 2 11%
HSK 3 17%
HSK 4 1%
HSK 5 3%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 9%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 86% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 91%, HSK 1–9 covers 91%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 46 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
老人	lǎo rén	old man or woman; the elderly; one's aged parents or grandparents	48	Lv 36
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	42	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	39	Lv 1
跑	pǎo	(of an animal) to paw (the ground); to run; to run away; to escape; to run around (on errands etc); (of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate; (verb complement) away; off	37	Lv 4
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	36	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	30	Lv 1
马	mǎ	horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞\|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]; CL:匹[pi3]; surname Ma	25	Lv 6
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]	23	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.)	17	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]	17	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])	16	Lv 1
腿	tuǐ	leg; hip bone; CL:條\|条[tiao2]; old variant of 腿[tui3]	14	Lv 9
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]	14	Lv 1
邻居	lín jū	neighbor; CL:個\|个[ge4]	14	Lv 16
儿子	ér zi	son	13	Lv 4
匹	pǐ	classifier for horses, mules etc (Taiwan pr. [pi1]); classifier for cloth: bolt; horsepower; classifier for cloth: bolt; (bound form) matching; comparable to; (bound form) alone; single; one of a pair; variant of 匹[pi3]	13	Lv 20
天	tiān	day; sky; heaven	13	Lv 2
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	13	Lv 1
可能	kě néng	might (happen); possible; probable; possibility; probability; maybe; perhaps; CL:個\|个[ge4]	12	Lv 2
回家	huí jiā	to return home	11	Lv 4

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A 7-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 140 syllables per minute. It's 620 words long, using 66 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 36 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 36 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 老人, 不, 的.