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
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45
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3,265 h
of material
987
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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 →

68/10033:02Historian Answers Renaissance Questions | Tech Support | WIREDB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastWIRED68/10017:06AUTOKnife Handles: The Quick & Dirty WayB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastEssential Craftsman68/1002:32:36Healing From Grief & Loss | Dr. Mary-Frances O'ConnorB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastAndrew Huberman68/1002:14:27AUTOJoe Rogan Experience #2345 - Roman YampolskiyB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastPowerfulJRE68/10044:27AUTOAstrophysicists Discuss Issues with Gravity, Dark Matter, and the Unsolved Mystery of the Sun’s HeatB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastStarTalk68/10022:21American Slang┃Learn American English Pronunciation On the GoC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastRachel's English68/10016:32AUTOThis Lady Gave Birth to 44 Children (World Record)B1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastDrew Binsky68/10053:27What Billionaire Tech CEOs Get Wrong About The Future, with Adam BeckerB1-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastStarTalk68/1001:39:12AUTOWorld-Renowned Physicist: They Are Lying To You About UFOs & Reality - Michio KakuB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastThe Diary Of A CEO68/10013:32What Really Happened at the Millennium Tower?B2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastPractical Engineering68/1001:09:49AUTOAdam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-FascismB1-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastAll-In Podcast68/1001:04:17Donald Trump Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #442B1-B2 · ~4,000 words · fastLex Fridman68/10028:06Ultimate Istanbul Food Tour: Best Turkish Street Food | Epic Food Journeys with Mark Wiens | Nat GeoC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastNational Geographic68/10018:17Scarlett Johansson Rewatches The Avengers, Lost in Translation & More | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastVanity Fair68/1001:46:42Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #366B2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastLex Fridman68/10018:30AUTOFraud, Spying and a Mysterious Death - Credit SuisseB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastColdFusion68/1002:44:56AUTOStandard Oil Part II (Extended Cut)B2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastAcquired68/10011:15What If It Rains Bananas For A Single Day? (Spoiler: It's Bad)C1-C2 · ~12,000 words · fastKurzgesagt – In a Nutshell68/10022:14Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot aboutB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastTechnology Connections68/10025:08Let's Learn English! Topic: Compound Words in the Countryside! 🌻📬🧥 (Lesson Only)B1-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastLearn English with Bob the Canadian68/10047:07AUTOHow to understand your dreams & nightmares | The Gray AreaB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastVox68/10016:125 Space Stations You've Never Heard OfB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastSciShow68/1004:41The tale of the boy who tricked a tyrant - Paschal Kyiiripuo KyooreB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastTED-Ed68/1005:34Alysa Liu Gets Ready for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party | Vanity FairB1-C1 · ~5,000 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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