Chinese Grammar: "...的时候" (When...) | Chinese Listening Practice| (Slow & Normal Speed) | HSK 3

YouTube · Chloe Chinese Class · Learner content · 2026/03/19
2026/03/19
Speech duration
18min 50s
Unique characters · 10 once
384
Word count
2,260
Average sentence length
9.0
Length
19:00
Unique words · 21 once
378
Syllables per minute
175
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
367
Difficulty
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Many of this content's words are outside our ranked vocabulary list — specialised terms or name-like words — so no level reaches 95% word coverage.

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Beyond ranked vocabulary

Many of this content's words are outside our ranked vocabulary list — specialised terms or name-like words — so no level reaches 95% word coverage.

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HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 58%
  • HSK 2 10%
  • HSK 3 9%
  • HSK 4 5%
  • HSK 5 2%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 14%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 83% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 86%, HSK 1–9 covers 86%.

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WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
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; target167Lv 1
时候shí hòutime; length of time; moment; period95Lv 1
我们wǒ menwe; us; ourselves; our74Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)48Lv 1
车chēcar; vehicle; machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159; war chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess); rook (in chess); CL:輛|辆[liang4]; surname Che44Lv 2
会huìcan; 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 accounts35Lv 1
都dōuall; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all; capital city; metropolis; surname Du35Lv 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)34Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my32Lv 1
是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]32Lv 1

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A 19-minute video from Chloe Chinese Class with 19 minutes of speech at 175 syllables per minute. It's 2,260 words long, using 378 different words. Difficulty: Beyond ranked vocabulary — many of its words are outside our ranked vocabulary list, so no level reaches 95% word coverage. Words to learn first include 的, 时候, 我们.