Shopping, Art & the Bund | Our Shanghai Trip #2:Real Chinese Conversation with Pinyin

YouTube · Chloe Chinese Class · Learner content · 2026/08/20

2026/08/20

Speech duration: 11min 57s
Unique characters · 193 once: 498
Word count: 2,325
Average sentence length: 9.2
Length: 12:20
Unique words · 263 once: 513
Syllables per minute: 285
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 372
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 76 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 76 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 76

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 76 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 76 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.

Lv 1

Lv 5

Lv 30

Lv 76

Lv 228

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 54%
HSK 2 11%
HSK 3 11%
HSK 4 7%
HSK 5 3%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 12%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 83% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 87%, HSK 1–9 covers 88%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 392 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
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	116	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	71	Lv 1
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	71	Lv 2
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]	70	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	68	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	66	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]	64	Lv 1
去	qù	to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)	40	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	38	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	38	Lv 1
就	jiù	(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 著\|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...	37	Lv 1
在	zài	to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)	34	Lv 1
一	yī	one; 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 digit	33	Lv 1
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	30	Lv 2
它	tā	it; it (pronoun for an animal)	29	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.)	28	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-	26	Lv 2
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]	24	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	23	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	21	Lv 1

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A 12-minute video from Chloe Chinese Class with 12 minutes of speech at 285 syllables per minute. It's 2,325 words long, using 513 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 76 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 76 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 我, 然后.