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Meet My Dog - He is a special one! - Chinese Comprehensible Input - Advanced Beginner

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2025/12/30
2025/12/30
Speech duration
5min 7s
Unique characters · 34 once
144
Word count
511
Average sentence length
6.4
Length
6:56
Unique words · 36 once
124
Syllables per minute
140
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
112
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 157 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 157 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 157

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 157 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 157 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 66%
  • HSK 2 8%
  • HSK 3 10%
  • HSK 4 4%
  • HSK 5 0%
  • HSK 6 2%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 10%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 87% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 90%, HSK 1–9 covers 90%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 99 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
它tāit; it (pronoun for an animal)42Lv 1
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; target29Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my21Lv 1
毛máohair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1]); surname Mao17Lv 24
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-15Lv 1
铃铛líng dānglittle bell; CL:隻|只[zhi1]15Unranked
都dōuall; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all; capital city; metropolis; surname Du14Lv 1
你们nǐ menyou (plural)13Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)13Lv 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]12Lv 1

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A 7-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 5 minutes of speech at 140 syllables per minute. It's 511 words long, using 124 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 157 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 157 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 它, 的, 我.