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Comprehensible input in English

5,210 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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3,265 h
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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 →

91/10021:44AUTOI Tried 1,000,000 Years Of FoodB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10013:11'The Last of Us' Cast Tests How Well They Know Each Other | Vanity FairB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastVanity Fair91/10023:12ASK This Old House | Rainwater, Pliers (S9 E17) FULL EPISODEB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastThis Old House91/10026:07Why colliding blocks compute piB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown91/10016:30The Best Car I've Ever Driven: McLaren W1B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastMarques Brownlee91/10017:25Researchers thought this was a bug (Borwein integrals)B2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown91/10027:09AUTOEvery Way to Cook Fried Chicken (32 Ways)B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10017:04AUTOI Cooked Viral Vintage RecipesB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10021:50World’s Smallest Nerf Gun Shoots an AntB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastMark Rober91/10012:15Chicken parm bitesB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea91/10022:50I Tried Every Viral Street Food in JapanB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10012:46iOS 18 Hands-On: Top 5 Features!B2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastMarques Brownlee91/10021:00Which Country Has The Best Burger?B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10010:34AUTOBattery powered generators!? - Coolest finds at WOC 2026B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastMatt Risinger91/10010:58AUTOMaking The Chick-fil-A Spicy Deluxe At Home | But BetterB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10028:33But why would light "slow down"? | Visualizing Feynman's lecture on the refractive indexB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown91/10013:10What's on my Phone 2026!B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastMarques Brownlee91/10023:01But what is a convolution?B2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown91/10010:17AUTOI Made McDonald's French Fries BetterB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10027:36Beyond the Mandelbrot set, an intro to holomorphic dynamicsB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown91/10011:14Green vegetable sides 101B2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea91/10015:16The Absurd Logistics of Concert ToursB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastWendover Productions91/10010:02AUTORoast beef rib with Yorkshire puddings and mushroom gravyB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea91/10011:39AUTOMaking IHOP Pancakes at Home | But BetterB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman

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
2English with Lucy88141B1-B2medium15049 h
3Learn English with Papa Teach Me107142B1-B2medium10620 h
4Rachel's English58849B1-B2medium14068 h
5BBC Learning English07554B2-C2medium19130 h
6Speak English With Vanessa288556B1-B2fast17485 h
7Learn English with Bob the Canadian438666B1-B2fast8834 h

6 of these 7 channels carry the same vocabulary band (B1-B2), and their scores still run from 0 to 88. 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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