Two pages of Twilight give Nishma a language-learning lesson

British Council | English posted four podcast excerpts, with a Spanish-reading misadventure drawing the largest audience.

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What should I read? #podcast #booktok

Knowing the films and speaking Italian seemed like a promising head start. So Nishma bought Twilight in Spanish, despite not knowing any Spanish. Her reading project lasted two pages.

In "What should I read? #podcast #booktok", she recalls the attempt with two fellow hosts, explaining that the experience put her off buying another Spanish book. The book remains at her parents' house, a rather substantial souvenir of a short-lived plan. For a podcast about learning English through reading, it's a useful example of how an ambitious choice can become discouraging.

The excerpt reached about 57,000 views, making it the most-watched of British Council | English's four uploads this week. It also has the strongest daily momentum among the channel's videos. One commenter picks up on the value of learning what not to do.

Reading supplied another excerpt, "Is reading the best way to learn vocabulary? #podcast #booktok". Elsewhere, the podcast turned to asking favours and the cultural travels of Halloween traditions. The longer Halloween discussion, featuring Nishma, Neil and Shereen, remains another of the channel's busiest videos, connecting experiences in Scotland and Egypt.

The channel added roughly 3,000 subscribers over the week, while daily views are running above their usual level. Nearby education channel Learn How to Sign added the same number of subscribers; BBC Timestamp had a much larger week for views. Here, the week's most distinctive teaching aid was a novel that barely got opened.

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The videos drawing views on British Council | English right now

Whose Halloween is it anyway? #podcast34,154 views · 2026-10-30 How to get people to do things... #podcast30,650 views · 2026-10-29 Is reading the best way to learn vocabulary? #podcast #booktok20,005 views · 2026-10-28 Whose Halloween is it anyway? A British Council English podcast85,666 views

The numbers

Here is how the channel's audience and this week's uploads moved.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

hoser

2,567,084

BBC Timestamp

2,102,024

Joe Bart Philosophy

2,020,007

Maxinomics

778,351

Asianometry

672,407

Learn How to Sign

316,563

British Council | English

278,873

Fire of Learning

251,694

Learn Skills Daily

198,259

subscribers

947,000

▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days

total views

31,620,486

views per day

36,126

typical day: 28,309

first-day views of each video posted this week

What should I read? #podcast #booktok

8,848

Whose Halloween is it anyway? #podcast

9,734

How to get people to do things... #podc…

9,323

Is reading the best way to learn vocabu…

14,476

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Learn Skills Daily

1,090,000

Joe Bart Philosophy

1,040,000

hoser

1,000,000

Asianometry

968,000

BBC Timestamp

963,000

British Council | English

947,000

Learn How to Sign

934,000

Fire of Learning

904,000

Maxinomics

828,000

As of November 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.