Comprehensible input · English

Comprehensible input in English

1,777 videos from 17 channels, each scored from its own subtitle track — vocabulary load and speaking pace. Filter to your level, then watch it on YouTube.

1,777
videos scored
17
channels
1,435 h
of material
591
made for learners

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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 →

74/10014:05Larry Ellison and His Family, Explained | Vanity FairC1-C2 · ~12,000 words · fastVanity Fair75/10019:20Timothy Olyphant Rewatches Deadwood, Justified, Alien: Earth & More | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastVanity Fair75/10025:22How EJAE and Mark Sonnenblick Created Oscar-Winning Song "Golden" | Vanity FairB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastVanity Fair75/10018:38Regina Hall Rewatches Scary Movie, Girls Trip, Honk For Jesus & More | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~2,000 words · fastVanity Fair75/10026:02Pedro Pascal Rewatches Materialists, The Last of Us, The Fantastic Four & More | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastVanity Fair76/10020:47The Duffer Brothers Break Down a Scene From 'Stranger Things' | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastVanity Fair76/10016:11Jamie Foxx Rewatches Django Unchained, Ray, Collateral & More | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~2,000 words · fastVanity Fair76/10029:04Ethan Hawke Breaks Down His Career, From 'Training Day' to 'Boyhood' | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastVanity Fair76/1009:31John Travolta on Performing with The Beatles and Winning Cannes Festival Honor for Directorial DebutB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon77/10010:42Jack Black Sings a Bowser Revenge Song, Reveals Ryan Gosling Is His Archenemy After "Peaches" SnubB1-B2 · ~2,000 words · fastThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon77/10019:31Hugh Grant Rewatches Love Actually, Notting Hill, Heretic & More | Vanity FairB1-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastVanity Fair77/10021:35Every Stranger Things Fan Theory | Vanity FairB1-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastVanity Fair78/10027:34ILM Visual Effects Artist Breaks Down Hidden VFX | Vanity FairB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastVanity Fair78/10011:05'The White Lotus' Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other | Vanity FairB1-C2 · ~4,000 words · fastVanity Fair79/10012:56Jennifer Aniston Rewatches Friends, Along Came Polly, The Morning Show & More | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · very fastVanity Fair79/10022:20SNL Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other | Vanity FairB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastVanity Fair80/10017:36Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson Take Lie Detector Tests | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastVanity Fair80/10021:09Saoirse Ronan Rewatches Little Women, Lady Bird, Atonement & More | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~2,000 words · very fastVanity Fair81/10019:39Miles Teller Rewatches 'Top Gun: Maverick,' 'Whiplash,' 'Eternity' & More | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · very fastVanity Fair81/10022:05Will Poulter Rewatches Guardians of the Galaxy, Midsommar, The Bear & More | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~4,000 words · very fastVanity Fair82/10052:35Every James Cameron Movie, Explained by James Cameron | Vanity FairB1-C1 · ~4,000 words · very fastVanity Fair82/10011:15The Crew of NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Reveals What They Saw on the Dark Side of the MoonB1-B2 · ~2,000 words · very fastThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon82/10013:11'Wednesday' Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · very fastVanity Fair82/1009:09Obsession's Inde Navarrette Gets Ready for Dior at Paris Fashion Week | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~4,000 words · very fastVanity Fair

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.

#ChannelLevel range (0–100)MedianTypical bandPaceVideosHours
1Easy English64831B1-B2medium13837 h
2BBC Learning English07554B2-C2medium19130 h
3Speak English With Vanessa288556B1-B2fast17485 h
4Learn English with Bob the Canadian438666B1-B2fast8834 h

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 →

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