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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.

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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 →

LevelAny Beginner Intermediate Advanced

LengthAny Under 10 min 10–30 min Over 30 min

PaceAny Slow Medium Fast Very fast

ContentAny Made for learners Real-world content Science & ideas (501)Podcasts (378)Entertainment (182)Talk shows (126)

SortEasiest first Hardest first Newest

27/10047:12Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War | Lex Fridman Podcast #316B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · slowLex Fridman

27/10047:26Is Escape from Earth Possible? | One Strange Rock Ft. Will Smith (Full Episode) | Nat GeoB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · slowNational Geographic

28/1001:05:16AUTO60 Confusing English WordsB1-B2 · ~5,000 words · slowEnglish with Lucy

28/1001:10:42AUTOGet my British Accent (MODERN RP)B1-B2 · ~7,000 words · slowEnglish with Lucy

29/10030:1530 Minute English Lesson: Vocabulary, Grammar, PronunciationB1-B2 · ~5,000 words · slowSpeak English With Vanessa

30/10048:14AUTOAre YOU Mispronouncing These 50 Common English Words?B2-C2 · ~12,000 words · slowEnglish with Lucy

32/10044:18Who was Genghis Khan? (Full Episode) | Secret History of the Mongols | National GeographicB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · slowNational Geographic

Which English channel to start with

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	Typical band	Pace	Videos	Hours
1	Easy English	6–48	31	B1-B2	medium	138	37 h
2	BBC Learning English	0–75	54	B2-C2	medium	191	30 h
3	Speak English With Vanessa	28–85	56	B1-B2	fast	174	85 h
4	Learn English with Bob the Canadian	43–86	66	B1-B2	fast	88	34 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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