Story4 A Joke of 3 Tomatoes | 100 Chinese Stories Series | SUPER BEGINNER | Comprehensible Input

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2023/09/28

2023/09/28

Speech duration: 5min 15s
Unique characters · 10 once: 59
Word count: 445
Average sentence length: 8.4
Length: 6:07
Unique words · 8 once: 50
Syllables per minute: 143
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 89
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 109 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 109 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 109

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 109 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 109 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 2

Lv 11

Lv 109

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 48%
HSK 2 30%
HSK 3 2%
HSK 4 16%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 3%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 95% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 97%, HSK 1–9 covers 97%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 35 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
西红柿	xī hóng shì	tomato	69	Lv 109
走	zǒu	to walk; to go; to run; to move (of vehicle); to visit; to leave; to go away; to die (euph.); from; through; away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]); to change (shape, form, meaning)	50	Lv 2
儿子	ér zi	son	32	Lv 4
爸爸	bà bà	(coll.) father; dad; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	29	Lv 2
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)	24	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	21	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	19	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	17	Lv 1
得	de	to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished; used in 得瑟[de4 se5]; structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc; to have to; must; ought to; to need to	14	Lv 1
前面	qián miàn	ahead; in front; preceding; above; also pr. [qian2 mian5]	13	Lv 15
妈妈	mā mā	mama; mommy; mother; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	13	Lv 2
和	hé	(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence; to join in the singing; to chime in with others; to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards; to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. [huo4]; to mix (ingredients) together; to blend; classifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs; old variant of 和[he2]; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japanese; (literary) harmonious (variant of 和[he2]); surname He	9	Lv 1
快	kuài	rapid; quick; speed; rate; soon; almost; to make haste; clever; sharp (of knives or wits); forthright; plainspoken; gratified; pleased; pleasant	9	Lv 2
后面	hòu miàn	the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards	8	Lv 8
土豆	tǔ dòu	potato (CL:個\|个[ge4]); (Tw) peanut (CL:顆\|颗[ke1])	7	Lv 47
慢	màn	slow	7	Lv 11
个	gè	used in 自個兒\|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]; (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual; variant of 個\|个[ge4]	6	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	6	Lv 1
但是	dàn shì	but; however	6	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]	6	Lv 1

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A 6-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 5 minutes of speech at 143 syllables per minute. It's 445 words long, using 50 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 109 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 109 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 西红柿, 走, 儿子.