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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
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
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...
- 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
- but he doesn't speak very much, so it's easy to understand
Movie Clips
YouTube channel 'Movie Clips' featuring short clips from lots of well known movies.
Most of the clips are really short.
ASMR Latte
I heard about ASMR from one of my students
ASMR videos use sounds that are relaxing for some people
Some people call it 'brain massage'
This ASMRtist 'ASMR Latte' is from Korea, but she has lots of videos in English (and Japanese and Korean)
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.
Tropfest is the biggest short film festival in the world.
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
Dude Perfect
34'000'000 subscribers (at time of writing)
This is one of the most popular channels on Youtube.
Sports, comedy, stunts...
Howcast
Hundreds of 'How to' videos.
Do you ever learn how to do things using YouTube?
Why not try doing it in English.
One-Minute World News
Interested in news?
- try one-minute world news from the BBC
- updated 24 hours a day
Great Big Story
Short videos telling the stories of people around the worlld
- 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.
The videos on this page are one minute long, and they have quizzes
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
- Why not give SpongeBob a go?
- I used to watch Japanese kids cartoon Doraemon when learning Japanese (and read the comics too)
60 Second Docs
Lots of short documentaries
Real stories from real people
All videos have English subtitles, so you can listen and read