"Dreaming Girl" | INTERMEDIATE Chinese | Comprehensible Input

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2023/12/29

Speech duration: 12min 41s
Unique characters · 55 once: 249
Word count: 1,836
Average sentence length: 9.4
Length: 13:35
Unique words · 72 once: 238
Syllables per minute: 202
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 273
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 28 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 28 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 28

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 28 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 28 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 6

Lv 18

Lv 28

Lv 43

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 63%
HSK 2 12%
HSK 3 8%
HSK 4 6%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 7%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 89% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 92%, HSK 1–9 covers 93%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 157 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	146	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	99	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	97	Lv 1
她	tā	she	76	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]	62	Lv 1
画	huà	to draw; to paint; picture; painting (CL:幅[fu2],張\|张[zhang1]); to draw (a line) (variant of 劃\|划[hua4]); stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 劃\|划[hua4]); (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 劃\|划[hua4])	48	Lv 16
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-	46	Lv 2
幅	fú	width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures	37	Lv 24
这	zhè	(pronoun) this; these; (coll.) this; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)	37	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	36	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	34	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)	32	Lv 1
看	kàn	to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard; to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for	26	Lv 1
什么	shén me	what?; something; anything	24	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	24	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]	22	Lv 1
东西	dōng xī	east and west; thing; stuff; person; CL:個\|个[ge4],件[jian4]	20	Lv 2
乱	luàn	in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary	19	Lv 11
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])	19	Lv 1
可以	kě yǐ	can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good	18	Lv 1

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A 14-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 13 minutes of speech at 202 syllables per minute. It's 1,836 words long, using 238 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 28 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 28 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 我, 很.