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30/1006:45What the oil industry doesn’t want you to know - Stephanie Honchell SmithC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · slowTED-Ed30/10014:20AUTOEnglish Conversation with Modal VerbsB1-B2 · ~6,000 words · slowEasy English30/10027:02THIS IS WHY IT’S SO DIFFICULT: How to Speak American English | Learn English with FRIENDSB2-C2 · ~11,000 words · slowRachel's English31/1006:41What if your president was chosen via lottery? - Michael VazquezB2-C2 · ~11,000 words · slowTED-Ed31/10012:49Rhythm for English Speaking (How British People Really Speak English)B2-C1 · ~9,000 words · slowEnglish with Lucy32/10044:18Who was Genghis Khan? (Full Episode) | Secret History of the Mongols | National GeographicB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · slowNational Geographic32/1006:23Why is it so hard to get rid of bed bugs? - Gale E. RidgeC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · slowTED-Ed32/10014:47AUTOIf you know these, you're C2.B2-C1 · ~8,000 words · slowEnglish with Lucy32/1006:49The incredible engineering of Venice - Stephanie H. SmithC1-C2 · ~15,000 words · slowTED-Ed33/10014:10AUTOPronounce British Towns & Cities CORRECTLY - Modern RP AccentC1-C2 · ~20,000 words · slowEnglish with Lucy33/1006:29What are truffles, and why are they so expensive? - Carolyn BeansC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · slowTED-Ed33/1007:05Edgar Allan Poe's story of the Red Death - Iseult GillespieC1-C2 · ~17,000 words · slowTED-Ed33/1006:33Why was bloodletting so popular? - Stephanie Honchell SmithC1-C2 · ~20,000 words · slowTED-Ed33/1006:09When did we start using passports? - Kristin SurakB2-C2 · ~11,000 words · slowTED-Ed33/10011:13Do YOU Mispronounce These Common English Words?C1-C2 · ~20,000 words · slowEnglish with Lucy33/1006:47How do snakes swallow animals so much bigger than they are? - Niko ZlotnikC1-C2 · ~14,000 words · slowTED-Ed34/1006:12Psychedelics, mind control, radiation-eating: The secret superpowers of fungi - Max G. LevyC1-C2 · ~19,000 words · slowTED-Ed34/1006:05How does extreme heat affect your body? - Carolyn BeansB2-C1 · ~9,000 words · slowTED-Ed34/1006:093 surprising ways microplastics can enter your bodyC1-C2 · ~12,000 words · slowTED-Ed34/1006:09The haunting history of the Paris Catacombs - Stephanie H. SmithC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · slowTED-Ed35/10011:58Don't pronounce the "T" in British English ✋C1-C2 · ~13,000 words · slowEnglish with Lucy35/1006:31Does hypnosis ever actually work? - Devin TerhuneC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · slowTED-Ed35/1006:52What happens to your brain without any social contact? - Terry KupersC1-C2 · ~15,000 words · slowTED-Ed36/1006:18The machine that changed our understanding of human history - Max G. LevyC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · slowTED-Ed

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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.

3 of these 4 channels carry the same vocabulary band (B1-B2), and their scores still run from 0 to 86. 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 →