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VIMEO - Staff Picks
Short videos are the best and most videos here are short
- The Vimeo Staff pick videos are mainly in English
- Mostly short films and music videos
- The quality is good as they are selected by staff who watch lots of videos
Food Videos and Recipes
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The YouTube channel of British TV Chef, Jamie Oliver and his friends. The videos are mainly recipes and can be followed without understanding all the English so can be a good way into English listening.
The Late Late Show with James Corden
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The YouTube channel of The Late Late Show, an American talk show, presented by British actor/comedian James Corden, recommended:
- Carpool Karaoke
- karaoke in cars feat. Adele, Coldplay, Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga...
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- Role Call
- actors perform all their movies in 5-10 mins
- feat. Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson...
Mr Bean Cartoon
In this animated version of Mr Bean, he speaks
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- but he doesn't speak very much, so it's easy to understand
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Movie Clips
YouTube channel 'Movie Clips' featuring short clips from lots of well known movies.
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Most of the clips are really short.
ASMR Latte
I heard about ASMR from one of my students
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ASMR videos use sounds that are relaxing for some people
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Some people call it 'brain massage'
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This ASMRtist 'ASMR Latte' is from Korea, but she has lots of videos in English (and Japanese and Korean)
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Give it a try, you might find it relaxing and pick up some English too
Short Videos about Animals
Beautiful, high quality videos from the BBC
- Fun to watch, don't worry too much about the English and enjoy
Short Films from Australia
More short films from Australian Film Festival, Tropfest.
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Tropfest is the biggest short film festival in the world.
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Most of the videos are really short and very interesting.
Short of the Week
More short films
- Similar to Vimeo Staff Picks
- Quality is good
- Ths videos are short
- for intermediate to advanced learners
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Dude Perfect
34'000'000 subscribers (at time of writing)
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This is one of the most popular channels on Youtube.
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Sports, comedy, stunts...
Howcast
Hundreds of 'How to' videos.
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Do you ever learn how to do things using YouTube?
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Why not try doing it in English.
One-Minute World News
Interested in news?
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- try one-minute world news from the BBC
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- updated 24 hours a day
Great Big Story
Short videos telling the stories of people around the worlld
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- some of the videos are in different languages with English subtitles
Elllo - One Minute English
There are lots of one minute videos here from English speakers around the world.
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The videos on this page are one minute long, and they have quizzes
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There is lots of other stuff to check out on Elllo too, but I like this page.
Spongebob Squarepants
Sometimes it's good to watch kids stuff as a second language learner
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- Why not give SpongeBob a go?
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- I used to watch Japanese kids cartoon Doraemon when learning Japanese (and read the comics too)
60 Second Docs
Lots of short documentaries
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Real stories from real people
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All videos have English subtitles, so you can listen and read