Comprehensible input in French
5,454 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 →
89/1008:29AUTOJ'ai tracké tous les salaires des devB2-C1 · ~7,000 words · very fastcocadmin
89/1009:30AUTOYa juste 6 concepts pour tout comprendre au DevOps.B2-C1 · ~6,000 words · very fastcocadmin
89/10029:59AUTOMukbang : On Test des Plats de plus en plus Épicés (avec Grimkujow et BR)B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastZACK
89/10013:35AUTOCette techno sur ton cv vaut +600€/moisB2-C1 · ~7,000 words · very fastcocadmin
90/10011:54AUTOComment faire une infra prête pour la prodB2-C1 · ~8,000 words · very fastcocadmin
90/10036:19AUTOOn Teste les Adresses HYPE du Maroc (ft. Nico & Yass)B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastZACK
90/10025:02AUTOIl a fabriqué un jetpack et ça a viré au cauchemar...B2-C1 · ~7,000 words · very fastSQUEEZIE
91/10040:22AUTO5 Projets pour devenir chaud en HackingB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastcocadmin
91/1009:10AUTOJ'upgrade mon homelab éclaté mais surpuissantB2-C2 · ~11,000 words · very fastcocadminWhich 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.
| # | Channel | Level range (0–100) | Median | Vocabulary range | 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-C1 | slow | 166 | 39 h |
| 3 | innerFrench | 4–45 | 8 | B1-C1 | slow | 211 | 113 h |
| 4 | Français Authentique | 4–42 | 8 | B1-B2 | slow | 198 | 50 h |
| 5 | Piece of French | 4–36 | 8 | B1-C1 | slow | 69 | 16 h |
| 6 | Français avec Nelly | 5–31 | 8 | B1-C1 | slow | 128 | 25 h |
| 7 | Français avec Pierre | 5–27 | 9 | B1-C1 | slow | 184 | 37 h |
| 8 | French In Motion | 7–21 | 10 | B1-C1 | slow | 34 | 7 h |
The vocabulary range is each channel’s own spread, not a single verdict: in three of every four of its videos the vocabulary starts at the lower level or above and stays at the upper one or below. Its top end tracks how far the rare words reach, so a channel devoted to one subject sits high on it without being hard to follow — the median score is the column that answers that.
6 of these 8 channels carry the same vocabulary band (B1-C1), 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 →