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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 →

57/1002:07:49Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin | Lex Fridman Podcast #395B1-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastLex Fridman57/10024:4615 Important *Real* English Vocabulary PhrasesB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastSpeak English With Vanessa57/1006:15Living with debt ⏲️ 6 Minute EnglishB1-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastBBC Learning English57/1001:13:39Did Life Come From An Asteroid? With Harold Connolly Jr.B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · mediumStarTalk57/10044:18Tsunami: Breaking News (Full Episode) | Tsunami: Race Against Time | National GeographicB1-B2 · ~4,000 words · fastNational Geographic57/1002:16:47AUTODr. Martha Beck (Oprah's Life Coach): This Weird Trick Reduces Anxiety & Fixed My Childhood Trauma!B1-B2 · ~4,000 words · fastThe Diary Of A CEO57/10014:49I'll teach YOU American English! ❤️B1-B2 · ~4,000 words · fastRachel's English57/10026:22Rural Juror?! (Your Questions Answered)┃Learn American English Pronunciation On the GoB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastRachel's English57/1005:37What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna RothschildC1-C2 · ~12,000 words · mediumTED-Ed57/1005:05Why are there so many different kinds of dogs? - Kathleen Morrill PirovichC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · mediumTED-Ed57/1005:00Are there any places on Earth with no bugs? - Charles WallaceC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · mediumTED-Ed57/1008:52Gordon Ramsay Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions | WIREDB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastWIRED57/10013:45Why Did These Ancient People Abandon Copper?C1-C2 · ~10,000 words · mediumSciShow57/10023:22AUTOPenélope Cruz Laughs With Abandon While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot OnesB1-B2 · ~2,000 words · fastFirst We Feast57/10054:44How Do We Get To Andromeda? | Cosmic Queries #111B2-C1 · ~6,000 words · mediumStarTalk57/10012:53AUTOTrump Blamed for World Cup Loss, Tiffany Haddish Loves Hot Soccer Players & Gets Emails from PrisonB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live57/10015:35AUTOAll the Trailer Tie Down Mistakes I was Making....B1-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastEssential Craftsman57/10044:21Inside the Dangerous World of Illegal Gambling (Full Episode) | Trafficked | National GeographicB2-C1 · ~4,000 words · fastNational Geographic57/1007:33These Rocks Are Petrified LightningB2-C2 · ~11,000 words · mediumSciShow57/10033:49History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIREDC1-C2 · ~12,000 words · mediumWIRED57/1006:53Thailand-Cambodia conflict: BBC Learning English from the NewsB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · mediumBBC Learning English57/10020:50AUTOEnglish SPEAKING Practice: 10 Conversations for Daily LifeA2-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastSpeak English With Vanessa57/1005:44AUTOGuillermo at the OscarsB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live57/1006:35English Rewind - 6 Minute English: SlangB2-C2 · ~11,000 words · mediumBBC Learning English

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 →