Comprehensible input · French

Comprehensible input in French

5,431 videos from 47 channels, each scored from its own subtitle track — vocabulary load and speaking pace. Filter to your level, then watch it on YouTube.

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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 →

LevelAny Beginner Intermediate Advanced

LengthAny Under 10 min 10–30 min Over 30 min

PaceAny Slow Medium Fast Very fast

ContentAny Made for learners Real-world content Science & ideas (1,804)Entertainment (1,365)Talk shows (620)Podcasts (522)

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14/1005:35AUTOLes secrets de Notre-Dame de Paris - 5 minutes de françaisB2-C1 · ~8,000 words · slowFrançais avec Pierre

14/10039:49AUTOL’étrange carte des cratères d'impacts, là où le ciel nous est tombé sur la têteB2-C1 · ~9,000 words · slowBalade Mentale

14/10021:38AUTO10 ANECDOTES SURPRENANTES SUR DES PHILOSOPHESB2-C1 · ~8,000 words · slowLe Précepteur

14/10027:49L’histoire sombre de la MartiniqueB2-C1 · ~12,000 words · slowNota Bene

14/10026:35La catastrophe de TchernobylB1-B2 · ~5,000 words · slowNota Bene

14/1005:25AUTOQu'est-ce que les DOM-TOM ? - 5 minutes de françaisB2-C2 · ~13,000 words · slowFrançais avec Pierre

14/10010:16AUTO10-Min French Listening Practice (with French Subtitles) | My New Life in PortugalB1-B2 · ~4,000 words · slowPiece of French

14/10026:26AUTOÉnergie noire : le fantôme du cosmos | Déclics | ARTEB2-C1 · ~10,000 words · slowARTE

14/10020:35L'Histoire de la bièreB2-C1 · ~13,000 words · slowNota Bene

14/10016:13AUTOThe Drama : Zendaya et Robert Pattinson dans le film le plus excitant de 2026 !C1-C2 · ~20,000 words · slowQuotidien

14/10016:33SPOKEN FRENCH IS A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE!! 😱🤦 // Most Common Rules of Spoken French (English subtitles)B2-C1 · ~7,000 words · slowPiece of French

14/10033:30AUTO🪐Comment sait-on à quoi l'Enfer ressemble ?B2-C1 · ~8,000 words · slowAstronoGeek

14/10054:50AUTOHackers russes : les soldats invisibles du Kremlin qui changent le monde | DocumentaireC1-C2 · ~20,000 words · slowFree Documentary Français

14/10012:14AUTOEnquête : que devient l'homéopathie ?B2-C1 · ~11,000 words · slowChat Sceptique

14/10025:00AUTOLa disgrâce : comment LES PUISSANTS TOMBENTB2-C1 · ~11,000 words · slowFrance Culture

14/10025:07AUTODonner à MANGER : entre SOLIDARITÉ et DOMINATION socialeB2-C1 · ~7,000 words · slowFrance Culture

14/10010:49Je suis allé à un meeting de Kamala Harris, voici ce que j'ai vuB1-C1 · ~6,000 words · slowHugoDécrypte - Grands formats

14/10012:40AUTOLa croissance 📈B2-C1 · ~8,000 words · slowChat Sceptique

14/1005:43AUTOLes célèbres fêtes de Bayonne - 5 minutes de françaisB2-C1 · ~8,000 words · slowFrançais avec Pierre

14/10022:15AUTODollarisation : le cas spectaculaire de l'Argentine | MONEY | ARTEC1-C2 · ~20,000 words · slowARTE

15/1008:45Learn French with a House Tour 🏡 | For Beginners & Advanced LearnersC1-C2 · ~20,000 words · slowFrançais avec Nelly

15/1005:06AUTOLa forêt magique de Brocéliande - 5 minutes de françaisB2-C1 · ~8,000 words · slowFrançais avec Pierre

15/10029:05AUTO🪐La Mandragore de Harry Potter existe vraiment.B2-C2 · ~11,000 words · slowAstronoGeek

15/10041:01AUTO[ENTRETIEN] FRÉDÉRIC MATHIEU - Newton et l'alchimieB2-C1 · ~13,000 words · slowLe Précepteur

Which French channel to start with

ChannelsAny Made for learners Real-world content

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.

#	Channel	Level range (0–100)	Median	Typical band	Pace	Videos	Hours
1	Français Plus Facile	3–12	6	B1-B2	slow	131	25 h
2	Simply French Podcast \| Easy French	3–11	7	B1-B2	slow	165	39 h
3	innerFrench	4–45	8	B1-B2	slow	211	113 h
4	Français Authentique	4–42	8	B1-B2	slow	198	50 h
5	Piece of French	4–36	8	B1-B2	slow	69	16 h
6	Français avec Nelly	5–31	8	B1-B2	slow	128	25 h
7	Français avec Pierre	5–27	9	B1-B2	slow	184	37 h
8	French In Motion	7–21	10	B2-C1	slow	34	7 h

7 of these 8 channels carry the same vocabulary band (B1-B2), and their scores still run from 3 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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