English videos for level A1

For each video we counted the share of words a typical A1 learner already knows, and how many new words you will meet.

Sorted for a typical A1 learner. Take the test to sort the list for your own result.

Best for learning

You probably know 90–95% of the words: you will follow the video and meet new words along the way.

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Easy to watch

You probably know 95% of the words or more. Good for relaxed watching.

No videos on this shelf for this level yet.

A bit harder

You probably know 80–90% of the words: lots of new words, best with pauses and subtitles.

🌈 Colorful Hogi and Pinkfong 🌟｜Hogi Jingle Play｜15 min｜Hogi Hogi｜Kids Play｜Hogi Pinkfong Hogi! Pinkfong - Learn & Play · 15 min ≈ 89% familiar words · ≈ 2 new words
Cardiac cycle 2- Atrial ventricular diastole Wendy Riggs · 4 min ≈ 88% familiar words · ≈ 36 new words
How To Perk Coffee - Coooking With Grandpa (Percolator Method) Coooking With Grandpa · 7 min ≈ 88% familiar words · ≈ 43 new words
Bedroom Bluey Book Read Aloud by Tan France ✨ | Bluey Book Reads 💙 | Bluey Bluey - Official Channel · 8 min ≈ 88% familiar words · ≈ 42 new words
Understand FAST English: Advanced Conversation & Vocabulary Lesson Speak English With Vanessa · 15 min ≈ 86% familiar words · ≈ 127 new words
"So Nice To Be Happy" Chante Moore Raves About Getting Married To Fiance Stephen Hill! 💍 My Husband is My Best Friend · 7 min ≈ 88% familiar words · ≈ 40 new words
A Game that Teaches More, Less, Same Using Dice Teach for Life · 6 min ≈ 88% familiar words · ≈ 24 new words
REALISTIC MINECRAFT - BOWSER KIDNAPS PEACH! - Super Mario Wii U Tripolar · 7 min ≈ 87% familiar words · ≈ 46 new words
Get Ready to Go Song with Elmo & the Cat in the Hat 👕 👖 | Sesame Street Songs 🎵 Sesame Street · 3 min ≈ 86% familiar words · ≈ 21 new words
Who's Back? mmmEnglish is back! 🥳 mmmEnglish · 6 min ≈ 86% familiar words · ≈ 66 new words
Jim Carey auditions for the role of Andy Kaufman in the movie 'Man on the Moon' (1999) Regal Reels · 5 min ≈ 88% familiar words · ≈ 27 new words
Beginner Spanish Phrases You MUST Know Before Traveling to Spain Glossika · 15 min ≈ 87% familiar words · ≈ 71 new words

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How we count

We take the video's subtitles and look up every word in the WordStudy dictionary of 84,633 English words, each with a CEFR level.
For a level we use a typical learner: almost every word of the levels below, most words of their own level and fewer of the next one. If you have taken our test, we use your own result instead.
The percentage is the share of familiar words, not of understood meaning. Research on reading and listening suggests that with about 95% of the words known people follow the meaning comfortably; at 90% it varies a lot from person to person.

Questions

Why 90–95% and not 100%?

If you know every word, there is nothing new to learn. At 90–95% you understand the video and still meet new words — the best mix for learning.

Are the subtitles checked by people?

Some channels publish their own subtitles; for others the automatic YouTube subtitles are used. Automatic subtitles have mistakes, so treat the numbers as an estimate.

Can I learn the words of any video?

Yes. In WordStudy add words from any YouTube video by its link — the app shows the words with translations into your language, and you choose which ones to learn.

Some videos and their transcripts come from the YouTube-Commons dataset (CC BY 4.0). All videos belong to their channels.