Among 8 channels with JLPT N5 videos measured by LingoDew, the slowest median speaking speeds belong to にほんごのじかん | Japanese Comprehensible Input (CI) (3.6 morae per second), Easy Japanese Stories Library (3.6) and Chienowa Japanese (3.9). The median N5 video runs at 4.4 morae per second.
Key findings
- 8 channels have at least 5 measured JLPT N5 videos; 4 of them speak slower than the N5 median of 4.4 morae per second.
- Slowest: にほんごのじかん | Japanese Comprehensible Input (CI) at 3.6 morae per second. Fastest: Teppei at 5.9.
- Most N5 videos: Japanese with Shun, with 20 (48% of its videos).
N5 channels by speaking speed
Sorted by the median speaking speed of each channel's N5 videos, slowest first. A channel is listed once it has at least 5 N5 videos with a minute or more of speech; the share column is how much of the channel's measured catalog is N5.
| Channel | N5 videos | Share at N5 | Morae per second | Main topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| にほんごのじかん | Japanese Comprehensible Input (CI) | 14 | 56% | 3.6 | Gaming, Daily Life |
| Easy Japanese Stories Library | 5 | 83% | 3.6 | Food, Recipes |
| Chienowa Japanese | 6 | 86% | 3.9 | Language Learning, Pets & Animals |
| しまじろうチャンネル（YouTube） | 9 | 75% | 4.3 | – |
| Ayano's Japanese Learning Hub for Beginners | 5 | 100% | 4.5 | Culture, Travel |
| ペッパピッグ Peppa Pig - 公式チャンネル | 17 | 57% | 5.0 | Daily Life, Food |
| Japanese with Shun | 20 | 48% | 5.7 | Travel, Daily Life |
| Teppei | 6 | 10% | 5.9 | Lifestyle |
More levels
- JLPT N4 channels, median 5.7 morae per second
- JLPT N3 channels, median 6.5 morae per second
- All N5 videos with transcripts and translations
- Every Japanese channel
Method
- Measured by LingoDew (this site's app) from Japanese videos it has processed up to 2026-10-16.
- Speed is morae (the rhythm units of Japanese, counted from each word's kana reading) per second 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 N5 videos.
- Levels are the JLPT 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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