Ep04_Story1 Surprised Dating | 100 Chinese Stories Series | Comprehensible Input | SUPER BEGINNER

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2023/06/13

2023/06/13

Speech duration: 21min 25s
Unique characters · 23 once: 167
Word count: 2,021
Average sentence length: 6.9
Length: 23:54
Unique words · 31 once: 160
Syllables per minute: 135
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 417
Difficulty Beyond ranked vocabularydifficulty 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. How difficulty works: 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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Lv 11

Lv 31

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HSK 3.0 coverage

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HSK 1 51%
HSK 2 10%
HSK 3 12%
HSK 4 2%
HSK 5 3%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 2%
Not on HSK 20%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 75% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 78%, HSK 1–9 covers 80%.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
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])	146	Lv 1
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	121	Lv 1
她	tā	she	85	Lv 1
橙子	chéng zi	orange	80	Unranked
没	méi	(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not; drowned; to end; to die; to inundate	67	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	62	Lv 1
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)	58	Lv 1
穿着	chuān zhe	attire; clothes; dress	47	Lv 31
照片	zhào piàn	photograph; picture; CL:張\|张[zhang1],套[tao4],幅[fu2]	44	Lv 5
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	41	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	41	Lv 1
滑	huá	to slip; to slide; slippery; smooth; sly; slippery; not to be trusted; surname Hua	40	Lv 27
看到	kàn dào	to see	40	Lv 2
我	wǒ	I; me; my	39	Lv 1
头发	tóu fā	hair (on the head)	37	Lv 9
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]	31	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	30	Lv 1
黑色	hēi sè	black	29	Lv 24
手机	shǒu jī	cell phone; mobile phone; CL:部[bu4]	26	Lv 9
衣服	yī fú	clothes; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]	26	Lv 5

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A 24-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 21 minutes of speech at 135 syllables per minute. It's 2,021 words long, using 160 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 他, 的, 她.