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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.

5,210
videos scored
45
channels
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 →

75/10012:41Menopause Starts Way Earlier Than You ThinkC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · fastSciShow75/10016:03AUTODanhausen Curses Hot Ones Wing Pong (feat. The Miz & Kit Wilson vs. R-Truth & Damian Priest)B1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastFirst We Feast75/10012:29AUTOSwapping Wood for Tile - the New Deck AlternativeB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastMatt Risinger75/10023:04AUTOHow the Sports Betting Industry Quietly Consumed AmericaC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastWendover Productions75/10013:35Giancarlo Esposito Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions | WIREDB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastWIRED75/10018:40The Best Birthstone (According to Science)C1-C2 · ~15,000 words · fastSciShow75/10020:26Europe’s Experiment: Treating Trains Like PlanesB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastWendover Productions75/10015:32AUTOI Spent A Day With India's Tattoo TribeB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastDrew Binsky75/10015:07When Infrastructure Gets HackedB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastPractical Engineering75/10014:06AUTOI Spent $1,000 in World’s Most Expensive CountryB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastDrew Binsky75/10025:37AUTOUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on self-driving's future, changing business model, job displacementB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastAll-In Podcast75/10027:41Why are politicians so DAMN RICH?!B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastJohnny Harris75/10022:06The Most Confusing Part of the Power GridC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastPractical Engineering75/10015:33AUTOThe Entire OpenAI Chaos ExplainedB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastColdFusion75/10020:37AUTOHow ICE's Surveillance System WorksB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastWendover Productions75/10026:04The REAL Story of Kamala HarrisB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastJohnny Harris75/10024:56AUTOThe 1991 Lotus Elan Is the Weirdest Lotus EverB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastDoug DeMuro75/10015:49AUTOSORA AI’s Problems [And Solutions]B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastColdFusion75/10018:47The Native American State That Never WasB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastJohnny Harris75/10017:07AUTOWhy the US Government Plans to Buy 1 Million BitcoinB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastColdFusion75/10015:19AUTOJimmy Kimmel Breaks Down Spencer Pratt's Run for LA Mayor & Trump Assembles His Cabinet of ClownsB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live75/10011:04The Dumbest Animal AliveC1-C2 · ~14,000 words · fastKurzgesagt – In a Nutshell75/10019:50DIY Drones: War Will Never be the SameB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastJohnny Harris75/10026:02Pedro Pascal Rewatches Materialists, The Last of Us, The Fantastic Four & More | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · 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
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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