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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 →

69/1002:44:23AUTOJoe Rogan Experience #2387 - Gregg BradenB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastPowerfulJRE69/10016:15AUTO3 Interesting Solar Car ProjectsB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastColdFusion69/10019:04AUTOHow This 31 Year Old Woman Scammed JP MorganB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastColdFusion69/10031:09AUTOInside the Shop that Makes the Most Legendary Knives w/ Cy SwanB2-C2 · ~5,000 words · fastEssential Craftsman69/10024:34The Mind-Blowing Flaw That Flooded New OrleansB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastPractical Engineering69/1002:23:56Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367B1-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastLex Fridman69/10018:30Ariana Grande & Bowen Yang Take Lie Detector Tests | Vanity FairB1-C1 · ~3,000 words · fastVanity Fair69/1003:05:37AUTOWalmartB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastAcquired69/10014:22Can We Describe The Whole Universe With A Single Number?B2-C1 · ~7,000 words · fastSciShow69/10024:51AlphaFold - The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever DoneB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastVeritasium69/10015:20Futurama Cast Answer The 50 Most Searched Futurama Questions | WIREDB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastWIRED69/10014:19AUTOTrump’s Crazy Posting Spree, Embarrassing Trip to China & a Deep Dark Government Conspiracy!B2-C2 · ~5,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live69/1001:52:40World’s First Iron Man in Antarctica – PROJECT ICEMAN (4K Full Film)B1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastYes Theory69/10017:33When Abandoned Mines CollapseB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastPractical Engineering69/10016:35'House of the Dragon' Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other | Vanity FairB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastVanity Fair69/10016:44AUTOAlexander The Great Was Killed By A MosquitoB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastSciShow69/10015:50AUTOThe Downfall of Denim Work PantsB2-C2 · ~5,000 words · fastEssential Craftsman69/1003:13:16The American war machine, explainedB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastJohnny Harris69/10029:43Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lightsB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastTechnology Connections69/10021:43AUTOBernie vs. the billionaires | Today, ExplainedB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastVox69/10032:45AUTOThomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like ItB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastAll-In Podcast69/10055:25AUTOYou’re not awkward — the world is | The Gray AreaB1-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastVox69/10020:19A Love Letter to Cable-Stayed BridgesB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastPractical Engineering69/1007:12Was the Trojan War Fought Over a Rock?C1-C2 · ~18,000 words · fastSciShow

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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