Comprehensible input · English

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.

5,210
videos scored
45
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3,265 h
of material
987
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 →

72/10026:13AUTOHere’s Why The E92 BMW M3 Is a Really Special BMWB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastDoug DeMuro72/10014:39AUTOTrump Chickens Out After Threatening a Whole Civilization with Death & Even Crazies Think He’s CrazyB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live72/10019:26AUTOAmtrak's Subtle, Surprising SuccessC1-C2 · ~12,000 words · fastWendover Productions72/10022:14AUTO7 Things Contractors Do That DIYers Should Learn FromB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastEssential Craftsman72/10010:52Nuclear Bombs Made Art Forgery Way HarderC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastSciShow72/10023:11AUTOMaria Sharapova Finds Flow State While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot OnesB1-B2 · ~4,000 words · fastFirst We Feast72/10017:20AUTOTrump Brags About Killing, Attacks “Late Night Morons” and Iran War Coverage & Jimmy Recaps OscarsB1-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live72/10016:45AUTOHow Airlines Quietly Became BanksB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastWendover Productions72/10010:39Dyson is Back… Why Do These Exist?B1-C1 · ~8,000 words · fastMarques Brownlee72/10013:409 Impossible Phrasal Verbs…EXPLAINED!B2-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastRachel's English72/10025:56AUTOIs AI Making Us Dumber?B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastColdFusion72/10029:02Let's Learn English! Topic: Large Tools and Equipment! 🧰🗜️🔧 (Lesson Only)B2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastLearn English with Bob the Canadian72/10028:34Let's Learn English! Topic: Tools Part 3! 🛠️⚒️📐 (Lesson Only)B2-C1 · ~7,000 words · fastLearn English with Bob the Canadian72/10012:16The Engineering Behind Russia's Deadlocked Pipeline: Nord Stream 2C1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastPractical Engineering72/10023:22We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 yearsB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastVeritasium72/10018:48AUTOWhy Zuckerberg’s Rebrand Shouldn’t Distract UsC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastColdFusion72/10013:37CRISPR Just Saved a Baby’s Life… Millions Could FollowC1-C2 · ~12,000 words · fastSciShow72/10013:54AUTOThe Metaverse Only Has 900 UsersB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastColdFusion72/10022:15Project Hail Mary Creators Answer The 50 Most Searched Questions | WIREDB2-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastWIRED72/10022:44Let's Learn English! Topic: Words and Phrases with the Word "Kick"! 👟🦶👞 (Lesson Only)B1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastLearn English with Bob the Canadian72/10014:15What Really Happened At Edenville and Sanford Dams?C1-C2 · ~16,000 words · fastPractical Engineering72/10014:36AUTOWhy I've Eaten McDonald's in 77 CountriesB2-C1 · ~7,000 words · fastDrew Binsky72/10020:49AUTOArsenio Hall on Impact of His Talk Show, Meeting Richard Pryor and Michael Jackson & New MemoirB1-B2 · ~2,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live72/10012:10How We Track Diseases In SewageC1-C2 · ~15,000 words · fastPractical Engineering

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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