Comprehensible input in English

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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 →

51/1005:37What is sumo, and why is it so popular? - Lee ThompsonC1-C2 · ~15,000 words · mediumTED-Ed51/1005:00Lady Meng Jiang: The legend of the woman who outwitted an evil emperor - Juwen ZhangB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · mediumTED-Ed51/1002:56:23Exploring Lost Treasures & Tombs Around the Globe | MEGA EPISODE SPECIAL | National GeographicB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · mediumNational Geographic51/1005:34How to attack (and defend) a medieval castle - Connor C. WilsonC1-C2 · ~14,000 words · mediumTED-Ed51/1005:40Why did people wear powdered wigs? - Stephanie Honchell SmithC1-C2 · ~14,000 words · mediumTED-Ed51/1005:38You'll travel 1 trillion kilometers through space - Fabio Pacucci and Lindsay DeMarchiC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/10030:40Psychologist Answers Couples Therapy Questions | Tech Support | WIREDB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · mediumWIRED52/1005:14What Earth in 2125 could look like - Iseult GillespieC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/10029:13AUTO24 Hour Pakistani Street Food Tour | Epic Food Journeys with Mark Wiens | National GeographicC1-C2 · ~9,000 words · mediumNational Geographic52/10011:43How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TEDB2-C1 · ~11,000 words · mediumTED52/1004:59Why does catnip make cats go crazy? - Jaap de RoodeC1-C2 · ~17,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/1005:293 things that can cause painful periods - Chen X. ChenC1-C2 · ~20,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/1006:34The curse of the monkey's paw - Iseult GillespieC1-C2 · ~9,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/1005:35Why did it take so long to find giant squids? - Anna RothschildC1-C2 · ~12,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/1005:10What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. SalasB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/1005:17How does kidney transplant surgery work? - Alexander H. ToledoB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/10015:28AI is Coming for Your Job. Now What? | Vlad Tenev | TEDB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · mediumTED52/1004:59How some friendships last — and others don’t - Iseult GillespieB2-C1 · ~8,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/1005:27The birth of the galaxy in 60 seconds - Scott HershbergerC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/1005:28The fascinating reason you loved peek-a-booB2-C1 · ~8,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/10049:23Alex Honnold Climbs a 4,000 Foot Sea Wall (Full Episode) | Arctic Ascent | National GeographicB1-B2 · ~4,000 words · mediumNational Geographic52/10044:31Real Madrid's $1 Billion Super Stadium Upgrade (Full Episode) | Megastructures | National GeographicB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · mediumNational Geographic52/1006:31History vs. Russia’s most infamous empress - Carolyn HarrisB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · mediumTED-Ed52/1005:31This is what happens in your brain when you can’t recall a word - Cella WrightB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · mediumTED-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 →