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Its videos run from 11 to 28 on a 0–100 scale, with a median of 19. That is a comparatively tight 17-point spread, so what you land on is fairly predictable. None of its 74 scored videos pass 40. 100% carry human-written subtitles rather than auto-generated ones.

74
videos scored
19
median difficulty
1128
full range
21 h
of material
HSK3-HSK7+
vocabulary range

Read the vocabulary range as the channel’s own spread: in three of every four of its videos the vocabulary demand starts at the lower level or above, and stays at the upper one or below. The upper bound is how far the rare words reach, not how hard the speech is — a channel built on one specialised subject carries a high ceiling on perfectly ordinary sentences. For whether you can keep up, read the median difficulty next to it: that one is mostly about how fast people talk.

Where its videos actually sit

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Each bar counts this channel’s videos in one ten-point slice of the scale. A median alone hides that shape, which is why the ranking shows a range rather than a single level. Bars from 40 up are dimmed because the advanced shelf begins at 43 — that is the part of the channel that stops being an easy watch.

Its hardest videos — where the channel stops being easy

Learn Chinese Through News | Xi Jinping Leaves North Korea after the State Visit | HSK 4
score 28HSK4-HSK7+~16,000 words15 minmedium
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Learn Chinese Through News | HSK 4-5
score 25HSK3-HSK7+~18,000 words21 minmedium
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Learn Chinese Through News | HSK 4-5
score 24HSK4-HSK7+~25,000 words19 minmedium
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Xi Jinping Visits North Korea to Meet Kim Jong Un | Learn Chinese Through News | HSK 4
score 24HSK5-HSK7+~30,000 words13 minmedium
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537 Five words native Chinese speakers often use, but Chinese learners don't
score 22HSK2-HSK6~23,000 words10 minmedium
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Learn Chinese Through News | HSK 4-5 | The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
score 22HSK4-HSK7+~30,000 words15 minmedium
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540 Learn Chinese Through Cartoons, Clips from Nezha 1, 《哪吒1》哪吒之魔童降世
score 22HSK2-HSK7+~8,000 words23 minmedium
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Learn Chinese Through News| Trump and Xi Jinping at State Banquet
score 21HSK4-HSK7+~30,000 words19 minmedium
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Interview of Eileen Gu | Learn Chinese Through Interview | by Yang Lan | Intermediate Chinese
score 21HSK3-HSK6~8,000 words18 minmedium
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525 Learn Chinese Through TV Dramas 《以家人之名》In the name of family
score 21HSK3-HSK7+~25,000 words19 minmedium
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