.htaccess - remove directory after main url using htaccess -

with following url http://www.example.com/de/here/ want remove "de" directory (or whatever may in front of "here" directory, if in front of it) user directed http://www.example.com/here/ instead, directory exist.

the url http://www.example.com/it/here/ or other combination of 2 letters.

the url http://www.example.com/here/ in case don't want removed @ all.

i have searched solution here cant seem make work correctly appreciated.

you can use kind of htaccess :

rewriteengine on rewritebase / rewriterule ^[a-za-z]{2}/(.*)$ $1 [l,r=301] 

example of redirections caused code :

http://www.example.com/de/foo/  => http://www.example.com/foo/ http://www.example.com/de/      => http://www.example.com/ http://www.example.com/it/bar/  => http://www.example.com/bar/ http://www.example.com/fr/baz/  => http://www.example.com/baz/ 

please note won't able access language (de, it, fr...) anymore.

another point, careful kind of url (the redirection executed twice) :

http://www.example.com/de/go/   => http://www.example.com/go/ http://www.example.com/go/      => http://www.example.com/ 

edit

now i've got more details, here htaccess can remove language specified folders :

rewriteengine on rewritebase / rewriterule ^[a-za-z]{2}/here/(.*)$          here/$1 [l,r=301] rewriterule ^[a-za-z]{2}/anotherfolder/(.*)$ anotherfolder/$1 [l,r=301]