We tracked down 3 of the best YouTube channels for learning Esperanto, including 2 you can use for free. Our top picks right now are American Esperantist, Evildea and Easy Languages. Every entry below is hand-checked, and the ones that teach you come first — with free options ahead of paid ones wherever they are as good.
3 resources · 2 free
Well-produced videos about Esperanto, and increasingly in Esperanto.
About this tool →Chuck Smith and collaborators make explainers about the language, its history and its community, at a level a recent beginner can follow. Fewer than sixty videos but each is substantial, and the production quality is far above the Esperanto norm.
Over a thousand videos of a person simply talking, in Esperanto.
About this tool →Richard Delamore has been vlogging in Esperanto for over a decade — comedy, commentary, travel, arguments about the community itself. The value is quantity of unscripted spoken Esperanto by a fluent non-native speaker, which is what most of the language actually sounds like. No lessons; start here once lernu stops challenging you.
Street interviews with dual subtitles, produced in dozens of languages.
About this tool →A franchise of local producers filming unscripted street interviews, each episode subtitled in the target language and English, which is the closest free thing to hearing how people genuinely speak. All YouTube episodes are free; membership adds transcripts, vocabulary lists and exercises. Real-speed unscripted speech is hard early on — start with the slower 'Super Easy' episodes if you are below B1.
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