Among 14 channels with CEFR A2 videos measured by LingoDew, the slowest median speaking speeds belong to Little Fox - Kids Stories and Songs (105 words per minute), English Unleashed: The Podcast (136) and Family Story English (141). The median A2 video runs at 161 words per minute.
Key findings
- 14 channels have at least 5 measured CEFR A2 videos; 6 of them speak slower than the A2 median of 161 words per minute.
- Slowest: Little Fox - Kids Stories and Songs at 105 words per minute. Fastest: Bob Ross at 220.
- Most A2 videos: The Dodo, with 37 (21% of its videos).
A2 channels by speaking speed
Sorted by the median speaking speed of each channel's A2 videos, slowest first. A channel is listed once it has at least 5 A2 videos with a minute or more of speech; the share column is how much of the channel's measured catalog is A2.
| Channel | A2 videos | Share at A2 | Words per minute | Main topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Fox - Kids Stories and Songs | 9 | 56% | 105 | Education, Daily Life |
| English Unleashed: The Podcast | 6 | 33% | 136 | Personal Stories |
| Family Story English | 23 | 72% | 141 | Family, Parenting |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 5 | 10% | 150 | – |
| BBC Learning English | 15 | 44% | 151 | Food, Language Learning |
| English Coach Chad | 7 | 30% | 155 | Language Learning |
| Leo English Podcast | 27 | 71% | 167 | Language Learning, Lifestyle |
| Volka English | 5 | 46% | 169 | Language Learning, Travel |
| Ryan's World | 15 | 71% | 174 | – |
| The Dodo | 37 | 21% | 181 | Pets & Animals, Home |
| Nat Geo Kids | 21 | 42% | 193 | Pets & Animals, Nature |
| Good Mythical Morning | 13 | 27% | 198 | Food |
| Saturday Night Live | 7 | 39% | 209 | – |
| Bob Ross | 22 | 51% | 220 | – |
More levels
- CEFR A1 channels, median 144 words per minute
- CEFR B1 channels, median 187 words per minute
- CEFR B2 channels, median 198 words per minute
- All A2 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 A2 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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