Real personal stories: How gross can you be in front of your partner? | Intermediate Chinese

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/05/02

2026/05/02

Speech duration: 24min 12s
Unique characters · 127 once: 435
Word count: 3,643
Average sentence length: 6.5
Length: 26:44
Unique words · 189 once: 474
Syllables per minute: 206
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 762
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 58 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 58 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 58

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 58 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 58 sits in the Upper-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 22

Lv 58

Lv 212

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 62%
HSK 2 10%
HSK 3 9%
HSK 4 5%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 9%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 86% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 90%, 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 291 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 291 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	320	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	216	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])	149	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
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	96	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	87	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]	81	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	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]	66	Lv 1
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	57	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)	55	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	54	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]	52	Lv 1
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	51	Lv 2
脚	jiǎo	foot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object); classifier for kicks; CL:雙\|双[shuang1],隻\|只[zhi1]; role (variant of 角[jue2])	45	Lv 10
要	yào	to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) to demand; to coerce; (bound form) important	45	Lv 1
可以	kě yǐ	can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good	43	Lv 1
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	37	Lv 2
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	35	Lv 1
也	yě	also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]; surname Ye	33	Lv 1

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A 27-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 24 minutes of speech at 206 syllables per minute. It's 3,643 words long, using 474 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 58 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 58 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 他.