Easy Languages (YouTube)
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Easy Languages is a language learning network that produces street interviews and subtitled conversations to teach more than 40 languages through authentic unscripted speech from local people who speak that language or dialect.[1]
The project began in 2005 in Münster, Germany, when media educator Janusz Hamerski led a school video workshop and, with participant Cari Schmid, created a video teaching German greetings.[2] The video was later uploaded to YouTube shortly after the platform launched, where it quickly gained international attention.[2]
In 2014, YouTube selected Easy German for its education-focused creator program, prompting Hamerski and Schmid to move to Berlin and expand the project professionally.[3] By 2021, the Easy Languages network had grown to include over a dozen channels in various languages, modeled on the same interview-based format.[4]