Easy German and Work That Matters

For the last couple of days I have been watching Easy German in the mornings. My partner Mairi has been out walking the dog, so I have had a bit of quiet time to myself, and these videos have just made me feel so good. They are so wholesome.

The Easy German team has been in Australia and New Zealand recently. I assume it is a bit of a work travel trip, but while they are out there they keep doing these meetups where they get to meet the learners in person. The Easy German community. People who have learnt German and used Easy German as a resource. It has been so wholesome to watch because they meet these people, and the people tell them how much their work means to them and how much it has helped them speak German. It is really nice to see Cari and Janusz react to that.

You know what, I do not really know why, but it made me genuinely emotional to watch. It almost made me tear up. Watching these people pour their hearts out to Cari and Janusz, telling them how much their work has meant, it is just amazing to see.

It is such a wholesome community that they have built. Their content is mutual in a way. It is learning content, and it has a very particular demographic that watches and uses it. Mostly students, and then there are the casual learners like me who are not really language learners in the formal sense. We do not go to university or school to learn a language, we just do it casually. There are a lot of people like that too, and it is really cool to see the whole community come together in one place for a meetup.

I think they are always genuinely surprised at just how many lives they have reached in these other countries. Watching it made me realise that you can have a job that really does make a difference in other people's lives. It does not have to be saving someone's life. They are simply making a positive impact in the world, and that is enough.

The fact that this is possible, that people are out there actually doing this, sits with me. It makes me wonder whether I should direct my own time into something that is a bit more beneficial for other people.