Among 6 channels with CEFR A1 videos measured by LingoDew, the slowest median speaking speeds belong to Smile and Learn - English (89 words per minute), PAW Patrol Official & Friends (133) and Blippi Wonders - Educational Cartoons for Kids (137). The median A1 video runs at 144 words per minute.
Key findings
- 6 channels have at least 5 measured CEFR A1 videos; 3 of them speak slower than the A1 median of 144 words per minute.
- Slowest: Smile and Learn - English at 89 words per minute. Fastest: Leo English Podcast at 166.
- Most A1 videos: Smile and Learn - English, with 12 (71% of its videos).
A1 channels by speaking speed
Sorted by the median speaking speed of each channel's A1 videos, slowest first. A channel is listed once it has at least 5 A1 videos with a minute or more of speech; the share column is how much of the channel's measured catalog is A1.
| Channel | A1 videos | Share at A1 | Words per minute | Main topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smile and Learn - English | 12 | 71% | 89 | Education, Daily Life |
| PAW Patrol Official & Friends | 7 | 78% | 133 | – |
| Blippi Wonders - Educational Cartoons for Kids | 8 | 38% | 137 | – |
| Sesame Street | 11 | 92% | 148 | Daily Life, Food |
| Family Story English | 9 | 28% | 149 | Food |
| Leo English Podcast | 6 | 16% | 166 | – |
More levels
- CEFR A2 channels, median 161 words per minute
- CEFR B1 channels, median 187 words per minute
- CEFR B2 channels, median 198 words per minute
- All A1 videos with transcripts and translations
- Every English channel
Method
- Measured by LingoDew (this site's app) from English videos it has processed up to 2026-10-16.
- Speed is subtitle words per minute of speaking time; speaking time is the sum of sentence durations from word-level audio alignment, so silence between sentences is left out.
- Only videos with at least 60 seconds of speech are timed. Each video gets one rate, and each channel's figure is the median of its A1 videos.
- Levels are the CEFR labels LingoDew shows on every video, estimated from vocabulary, grammar and speed; some are reviewed by hand.
- Levels get a ranking only when at least 5 channels qualify. How fast people speak on YouTube has the level medians and the full method.
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