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Learn Chinese with this hilarious contest | Beginner | Comprehensible input Chinese

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/05/06
2025/05/06
Speech duration
6min 18s
Unique characters · 59 once
176
Word count
664
Average sentence length
6.5
Length
8:25
Unique words · 67 once
156
Syllables per minute
155
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
152
Difficulty
Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 sits in the Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Intermediate · 31

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 55%
  • HSK 2 6%
  • HSK 3 11%
  • HSK 4 6%
  • HSK 5 3%
  • HSK 6 0%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 17%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 79% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 82%, HSK 1–9 covers 83%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 121 words.

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; target32Lv 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]29Lv 1
你nǐyou (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.)24Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)23Lv 1
嗯ng(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement22Lv 2
在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)21Lv 1
比赛bǐ sàicompetition (sports etc); match; to compete; CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4]20Lv 5
一个yī gèa; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)18Lv 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])18Lv 1
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-17Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

An 8-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 6 minutes of speech at 155 syllables per minute. It's 664 words long, using 156 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 31 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 是, 你.