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The number on each thumbnail is its difficulty score out of 100: mostly speaking pace, partly vocabulary load. How it is measured →

57/10044:09Dark Web & Liquid Drugs (Full Episode) | To Catch a SmugglerB1-B2 · ~5,000 words · fastNational Geographic57/10018:11300 Years of Classical Music in 18 Minutes | Joshua Bell | TEDB1-B2 · ~6,000 words · fastTED57/10044:18Tsunami: Breaking News (Full Episode) | Tsunami: Race Against Time | National GeographicB1-B2 · ~4,000 words · fastNational Geographic57/1008:52Gordon Ramsay Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions | WIREDB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastWIRED57/10044:21Inside the Dangerous World of Illegal Gambling (Full Episode) | Trafficked | National GeographicB2-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastNational Geographic58/10037:34Harvard Professor Answers Middle East Questions | Tech Support | WIREDB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastWIRED58/10018:26How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TEDB1-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastTED58/10011:07Can we actually control superintelligent AI? | Ada, Ep. 4B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastTED-Ed58/10013:59There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky WayB2-C1 · ~7,000 words · fastKurzgesagt – In a Nutshell58/1008:02How to Become a K-pop Superstar — in 7 Minutes | Charlene Kaye | TEDB1-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastTED58/10013:11AUTOHow to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TEDB1-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastTED58/10011:19Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TEDB2-C1 · ~7,000 words · fastTED58/10012:38A Pastry Chef Works His Chocolatier Magic — Live | Amaury Guichon | TEDB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastTED58/10013:14Why You Should Spend Less Time with Your Kids | Lenore Skenazy | TEDB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastTED59/1001:03:22All Of Human History In One HourB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastKurzgesagt – In a Nutshell59/1007:18The Award for Best Comedy Wildlife Photo Goes to… | Tom Sullam | TEDB1-C1 · ~7,000 words · fastTED59/1002:59:22Examining History of a Dictatorship | Inside North Korea MEGA Episode | National GeographicB2-C1 · ~7,000 words · fastNational Geographic60/1005:11Can humans be trusted with control over genetics? - Michael Vazquez and Raye PloegerB2-C1 · ~9,000 words · fastTED-Ed60/10010:54How to survive the apocalypse | Ada, Ep. 1B2-C1 · ~7,000 words · fastTED-Ed60/10010:48Would you sell your kidney for $100,000? | Ada, Ep. 2B1-B2 · ~5,000 words · fastTED-Ed60/10034:09Army Historian Answers World War II Questions | Tech Support | WIREDB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastWIRED61/10034:58I Trained with Kenya's ELITE Runners | Superskilled with Eva zu Beck S2 E3 | National GeographicB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastNational Geographic61/10017:15The Boys' Antony Starr Answers The Internet's Best QuestionsB1-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastWIRED61/1004:54How we got hooked on credit cards - Nidhi UpadhyayaB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastTED-Ed

Which English channel to start with

Ranked by median difficulty, easiest first. The bar is a range, not a label — a channel typically spans a wide stretch of the scale, so one level would be false for its own hardest videos.

3 of these 4 channels carry the same vocabulary band (B1-B2), and their scores still run from 0 to 86. That gap is pace: what separates the easiest of these channels from the hardest is how fast people talk, not which words they use. How that is measured →