Story8 Gāogao & ǎiai | 100 Chinese Stories | SUPER BEGINNER | Comprehensible Input

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2025/04/19

Speech duration: 12min 28s
Unique characters · 23 once: 157
Word count: 1,320
Average sentence length: 5.8
Length: 13:16
Unique words · 34 once: 152
Syllables per minute: 144
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 310
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 40 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 40 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 40

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 40 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 40 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 2

Lv 6

Lv 40

Lv 80

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 57%
HSK 2 18%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 2%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 87% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 89%, HSK 1–9 covers 89%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 102 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
高	gāo	high; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific); surname Gao	125	Lv 6
矮	ǎi	(of a person) short; (of a wall etc) low; (of rank) inferior (to); lower (than)	72	Lv 40
他们	tā men	they; them	44	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]	41	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	41	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	33	Lv 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])	30	Lv 1
啊	a	interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh!; interjection expressing doubt or requiring answer; Eh?; what?; interjection of surprise or doubt; Eh?; My!; what's up?; interjection or grunt of agreement; uhm; Ah, OK; expression of recognition; Oh, it's you!; modal particle ending sentence, showing affirmation, approval, or consent	29	Lv 1
好	hǎo	good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello; to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to	29	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]	29	Lv 1
说	shuō	to persuade; to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine; variant of 說\|说[shuo1]	28	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	27	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	25	Lv 1
手机	shǒu jī	cell phone; mobile phone; CL:部[bu4]	23	Lv 9
喜欢	xǐ huān	to like; to be fond of	21	Lv 1
没有	méi yǒu	haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be	21	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	21	Lv 1
餐厅	cān tīng	dining hall; dining room; restaurant; CL:間\|间[jian1],家[jia1]	19	Lv 19
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	18	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	17	Lv 1

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A 13-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 12 minutes of speech at 144 syllables per minute. It's 1,320 words long, using 152 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 40 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 40 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 高, 矮, 他们.