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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 →

81/10029:40AUTOHow The Internet’s Favourite AI Employee Went RogueB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastColdFusion81/1001:40:30AUTOUS ELECTION DEBATE: What Trump’s Return REALLY Means For The World! Is The UK About To Collapse?B2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastThe Diary Of A CEO81/1008:54AUTOThe Most Important Picture in the History of ScienceB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastSciShow81/10016:04The Time a Pickup Pulled the Space ShuttleB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastPractical Engineering81/10019:48Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?B2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastPractical Engineering81/1002:29:50AUTOJoe Rogan Experience #2411 - Gavin de BeckerB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastPowerfulJRE81/1001:33:43AUTOThe Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastAll-In Podcast81/1001:19:29AUTOTrump vs Powell, Solving the Debt Crisis, The $10T AGI Prize, GENIUS Act Becomes LawB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastAll-In Podcast82/10015:05OnePlus 13 Review: The Bar Has Been Set!!B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastMarques Brownlee82/1001:22:01AUTOElon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI BoomB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastAll-In Podcast82/10010:28Salvaging the Cold War's Sunken Nuclear SubsB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastSciShow82/10018:40AUTOOkinawa vs the US Military: The Decades-Long FeudB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastWendover Productions82/10017:47AUTOThe Cruise Industry's Arms RaceB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastWendover Productions82/1007:59This Is Where We’re Gonna Bury The ISSB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastSciShow82/10036:43Touring the Vulcan Rocket on the Launch Pad - Smarter Every Day 297B2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastSmarterEveryDay82/10027:58Jamaica's Incredible Caribbean Food in 24 Hours | Epic Food Journeys with Mark Wiens | Nat GeoB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastNational Geographic82/1001:07:38ASK ADAM: Chicken vs beef stock, picky eaters, veg worth growingB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastAdam Ragusea82/10020:29I Tried Real Augmented Reality Glasses!B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastMarques Brownlee82/10012:52Why 90-Year-Olds Get Less CancerB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastSciShow82/10019:35AUTOCalifornia's Water ProblemC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastWendover Productions82/1009:26What granola is, where it came from, how to make itB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastAdam Ragusea82/10010:59Are Foldables Cooked?B2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastMarques Brownlee82/10039:19Historian Answers Witchcraft Questions | Tech Support | WIREDB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastWIRED82/1001:11:45AUTOAI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine EndgameB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastAll-In Podcast

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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