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5,229 videos from 45 channels, each scored from its own subtitle track — vocabulary load and speaking pace. Filter to your level, then watch it on YouTube.

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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 →

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ContentAny Made for learners Real-world content Science & ideas (1,820)Entertainment (1,125)Podcasts (850)Talk shows (446)

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81/10017:27AUTOJacob Elordi on Impact & End of Euphoria, His Biggest Fear & New Film The Dog Stars with Josh BrolinB1-C1 · ~3,000 words · very fastJimmy Kimmel Live

81/1008:54AUTOThe Most Important Picture in the History of ScienceB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastSciShow

81/10015:25AUTOGoldie Hawn on Her Crazy Alien Experience, Missing Her Oscars Win & Sketch with Harlem GlobetrottersA2-B2 · ~2,000 words · very fastJimmy Kimmel Live

81/10016:04The Time a Pickup Pulled the Space ShuttleB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastPractical Engineering

81/10019:48Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?B2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastPractical Engineering

81/1002:29:50AUTOJoe Rogan Experience #2411 - Gavin de BeckerB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastPowerfulJRE

81/1001:33:43AUTOThe Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastAll-In Podcast

81/1002:54:08AUTOJoe Rogan Experience #2368 - Michael ButtonB1-C1 · ~5,000 words · very fastPowerfulJRE

81/1001:19:29AUTOTrump vs Powell, Solving the Debt Crisis, The $10T AGI Prize, GENIUS Act Becomes LawB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastAll-In Podcast

81/10026:22Your Rich BFF Vivian Tu Answers Personal Finance Questions | Tech Support | WIREDB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · very fastWIRED

81/10010:40Just two adults gettin' a stew on, manB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea

82/10015:05OnePlus 13 Review: The Bar Has Been Set!!B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastMarques Brownlee

82/1001:22:01AUTOElon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI BoomB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastAll-In Podcast

82/10052:35Every James Cameron Movie, Explained by James Cameron | Vanity FairB1-C1 · ~4,000 words · very fastVanity Fair

82/10010:28Salvaging the Cold War's Sunken Nuclear SubsB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastSciShow

82/10054:15AUTORo Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free SpeechB1-C1 · ~5,000 words · very fastAll-In Podcast

82/10018:40AUTOOkinawa vs the US Military: The Decades-Long FeudB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastWendover Productions

82/10017:47AUTOThe Cruise Industry's Arms RaceB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastWendover Productions

82/1002:35:51AUTOWW3 Threat Assessment: World War III Has Quietly Started!B2-C2 · ~6,000 words · very fastThe Diary Of A CEO

82/10010:34AUTOCharlie Puth on New Baby Boy Jude, Playing Music in the Delivery Room & Working with Amazing ArtistsB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · very fastJimmy Kimmel Live

82/10011:15The 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 Fallon

82/1007:59This Is Where We’re Gonna Bury The ISSB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastSciShow

82/1001:06:20What Loneliness Does To Your Brain, with Ben ReinB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastStarTalk

82/10036:43Touring the Vulcan Rocket on the Launch Pad - Smarter Every Day 297B2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastSmarterEveryDay

English channels, ranked

ChannelsAny Made for learners Real-world content

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.

#	Channel	Level range (0–100)	Median	Vocabulary range	Pace	Videos	Hours
1	TED-Ed	27–91	50	B2-C2	medium	192	19 h
2	National Geographic	27–89	57	B2-C2	medium	65	81 h
3	TED	22–87	58	B1-C2	fast	69	16 h
4	Essential Craftsman	33–87	63	B1-C2	fast	137	39 h
5	Real Engineering	47–86	64	C1-C2	fast	76	30 h
6	Technology Connections	56–90	67	B2-C2	fast	89	47 h
7	Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell	13–88	68	B2-C2	fast	60	13 h
8	Veritasium	48–92	69	B2-C2	fast	118	56 h
9	Lex Fridman	27–89	70	B1-C1	fast	127	377 h
10	StarTalk	40–91	70	B2-C2	fast	109	98 h
11	Acquired	33–91	71	B2-C2	fast	86	221 h
12	Yes Theory	28–87	72	B1-B2	fast	90	48 h
13	ColdFusion	55–86	72	B2-C2	fast	118	38 h
14	Vox	43–90	72	B2-C2	fast	93	51 h
15	First We Feast	39–97	72	B1-C1	fast	122	41 h
16	Andrew Huberman	45–95	74	B2-C2	fast	145	238 h
17	Practical Engineering	59–89	75	B2-C2	fast	142	41 h
18	Johnny Harris	49–90	75	B2-C2	fast	117	62 h
19	Wendover Productions	52–91	76	B2-C2	fast	129	47 h
20	SciShow	55–96	76	B2-C2	fast	197	48 h
21	Jimmy Kimmel Live	36–87	76	B1-C1	fast	196	42 h
22	WIRED	26–91	77	B1-C2	fast	73	28 h
23	Vanity Fair	38–91	78	B1-C1	fast	96	28 h
24	The Diary Of A CEO	38–92	79	B1-C2	fast	152	316 h
25	All-In Podcast	45–90	81	B2-C2	fast	132	143 h
26	PowerfulJRE	40–90	81	B1-C1	very fast	99	269 h
27	Matt Risinger	55–92	83	B2-C2	very fast	140	54 h
28	Doug DeMuro	65–90	83	B1-C2	very fast	141	100 h
29	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	40–89	84	B1-C1	very fast	32	6 h
30	Drew Binsky	40–97	85	B1-C1	very fast	132	72 h
31	SmarterEveryDay	59–91	86	B1-C2	very fast	54	32 h
32	Adam Ragusea	24–96	87	B2-C2	very fast	186	54 h
33	Marques Brownlee	53–92	87	B2-C2	very fast	127	28 h
34	MrBeast	75–94	87	B1-B2	very fast	92	34 h
35	This Old House	58–94	88	B1-C2	very fast	90	46 h
36	Mark Rober	72–95	89	B2-C2	very fast	43	15 h
37	Joshua Weissman	64–96	90	B2-C2	very fast	117	45 h
38	3Blue1Brown	80–94	91	B2-C2	very fast	58	24 h

The vocabulary range is each channel’s own spread, not a single verdict: in three of every four of its videos the vocabulary starts at the lower level or above and stays at the upper one or below. Its top end tracks how far the rare words reach, so a channel devoted to one subject sits high on it without being hard to follow — the median score is the column that answers that.

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