Why Our Parents Stayed in Unhappy Marriages｜Chinese listening

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/04/17

2026/04/17

Speech duration: 31min 1s
Unique characters · 150 once: 546
Word count: 5,097
Average sentence length: 8.1
Length: 34:05
Unique words · 239 once: 604
Syllables per minute: 238
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 916
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 27 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 27 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 27

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 27 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 27 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 1

Lv 3

Lv 15

Lv 27

Lv 67

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 60%
HSK 2 11%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 6%
HSK 5 4%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 7%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 87% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 92%, HSK 1–9 covers 93%.

Words to learn first

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Starting from zero (Beginner), learn 358 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 358 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	405	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	280	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	116	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]	116	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	111	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	106	Lv 1
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	102	Lv 2
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])	99	Lv 1
你	nǐ	you (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.)	96	Lv 1
会	huì	can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]); (bound form) to reckon accounts	94	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]	91	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]	89	Lv 1
就	jiù	(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 著\|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...	71	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	68	Lv 1
他们	tā men	they; them	66	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	58	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	54	Lv 1
妈妈	mā mā	mama; mommy; mother; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	53	Lv 2
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	53	Lv 2
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	52	Lv 1

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A 34-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 31 minutes of speech at 238 syllables per minute. It's 5,097 words long, using 604 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 27 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 27 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 对.