Comprehensible input · French

Comprehensible input in French

3,144 videos from 24 channels, each scored from its own subtitle track — vocabulary load and speaking pace. Filter to your level, then watch it on YouTube.

3,144
videos scored
24
channels
1,848 h
of material
790
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 →

Which French 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
1innerFrench4458B1-B2slow211113 h
2Français Authentique4428B1-B2slow19850 h
3Piece of French4368B1-B2slow6916 h
4Français avec Nelly5318B1-B2slow12825 h
5Français avec Pierre5279B1-B2slow18437 h

5 of these 5 channels carry the same vocabulary band (B1-B2), and their scores still run from 4 to 45. 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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