Comprehensible input in English

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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 →

73/1004:28How are these fires burning underground? - Emma BryceC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · fastTED-Ed73/1009:30AUTOJake Johnson on Hiring a Guy Named Rick to Drive His Mom from Chicago to Los AngelesA2-B1 · ~2,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live74/1009:29The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TEDB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastTED74/1004:19Your phone’s camera isn’t as good as you think - Rachel YangB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastTED-Ed74/1009:30The BONKERS Physics of Animal Swarms (Not Clickbait)C1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastSciShow74/1009:14AUTOSpray Foam and Denim? New Approach in Insulated Remodeled WallsB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastMatt Risinger74/1008:06AUTOShameik Moore on Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, Working with Tony Danza & Visiting JamaicaB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live74/1007:40There Are Two Types of BoredomB2-C1 · ~9,000 words · fastSciShow74/1007:43Can You Picture Things in Your Mind? I Can’t | Alex Rosenthal | TEDB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastTED74/1009:46AUTOAndersen Triple Glaze WindowsB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastMatt Risinger74/1004:36How do sinkholes swallow entire houses and cities? - Elise CuttsC1-C2 · ~20,000 words · fastTED-Ed75/1008:02Plants Have Proprioception and That’s WeirdB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastSciShow75/1008:53AUTOZlatan Ibrahimović on Messi vs Ronaldo, Becoming the Charles Barkley of Soccer & Hazing BeckhamB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live75/1009:11Antarctica Has An Accent and It's Weirder Than You ThinkB1-B2 · ~7,000 words · fastSciShow75/1004:27A day in the life of a martial artist in medieval China - Peter LorgeC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · fastTED-Ed75/1008:41AUTOChris Robinson on The Black Crowes Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nom, Early Days on the Road & New AlbumB1-B2 · ~4,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live75/1008:26AUTOWagner Moura on Oscar Nomination for The Secret Agent & Growing Up in a DictatorshipB1-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live75/1007:38Yes, It Really Does Rain More on WeekendsC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastSciShow75/1008:45AUTOTree Limbing & Garden UpdateB2-C1 · ~7,000 words · fastEssential Craftsman75/1009:48AUTOThe Screws to Tackle ANY JobB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastEssential Craftsman75/1006:13What causes hearing loss? ⏲️ 6 Minute EnglishB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastBBC Learning English75/1009:20The banana is under threatB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastVox76/1008:49Why Is This Persian Silver Hoard Buried in Yorkshire?B2-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastSciShow76/1004:40How exactly do inhalers work? - Anna RothschildC1-C2 · ~16,000 words · fastTED-Ed

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.

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 →