italki Reviews 

I really enjoy the quality of speaking practice on italki, especially having a tutor who provides real-time corrections and feedback. My tutor has helped me apply what I’ve learned in my lessons to real conversations, making my language-learning journey more practical, engaging, and effective.

She takes care about that the student is following the subject.

Very good app, great to meet teacher and take classes

I have a very good teacher. She motivates me.

General opinion: I think that it's a wonderful website for those who are looking for teachers in whatever language they are looking for. As there is many options of language available, I will say the more niche or not popular language there will be less teachers, and maybe not as many time slots, but I'm someone who is taking a more popular language (Spanish). So, I can't speak that well on the topic, but just wanted to but that out there. Obviously there will be good and bad teachers with this type of platform. I like this platform better than Preply considering the fact I don't have to have a subscription based model or credits to use the Italki. Everything is self intuitive not confusing at all.

Teachers:I feel like there is a good portion of community teacher and certified teachers.I've tried only one teacher and we hit it off (she is a community teacher). And I've had a great time with her. I will say though once you find someone you like and vibe with it's important to book with them in advance if you want a specific time slots. There are also topics for those wanting to learn certain things in the language they want to learn. For example Medical Spanish or Counseling Spanish.

Pricing: You can find teachers for all different price ranges, from $8-$100 usd. Even cheaper than $8. But I do understand that to some people this may feel too cheap which is completely understandable. There are price ranges for everyone! I will say just because someone has a cheaper price doesn't mean the teacher isn't up to par.

Class: Now the way the teacher teaches differs by person. Some use videos, some give homework, etc.

Time duration: There are different time duration. 30min is the shorter session and there are sessions for an hour or even more.

UI: Very intuitive not hard at all. I've only had one instance where my card didn't go through and I had to use another one and it wasn't that big of an issue.

Tutor Amina is a great teacher, she has amazing teaching skills:)

My classes with Maxime have been great. Challenging in a great way. And italki is very easy to use.

I’ve been having weekly sessions with Marte and every class is an absolute joy. She makes learning engaging, stress-free, and thoroughly enjoyable. Every single lesson is perfectly balanced between structured learning and natural conversation, making each session something I truly look forward to. If you are looking for a top-tier tutor on italki, I cannot recommend Marte highly enough!

The application is very intuitive and I've had a great time meeting great teachers

So far I have got great Ukrainian lessons with my professor Olesia. The platform is easy to use to plan lessons contact teachers know what you will pay and pay.

Italki offers a large variety of teachers from which to choose, allowing you to find the perfect teacher for your personal needs. Technology used for video meetings works great too.

Italki has hundreds of teachers from which to choose and provides filters to narrow your choice. Each teacher has a short video introducing themselves and their teaching style. Then you can take a trial lesson with that teacher, so you get a very good idea what to expect. My only problem was navigating to the homework and being unaware of the practice activities.

My teacher, Blanca, was excelent. She was patient, encouraging, and understanding of what I needed. Her lessons were challenging, fun, and very helpful. She has my full recommendation.

I've been using italki for years to learn and practice languages. The platform is trustworthy and the teachers there are of high quality.

Platform easy to use to connect with the teacher and video connection also good.

But finding the teachers are difficult, while there are a lot of teachers that meet my criteriea, finding the one on the time I want is difficult

Once you are up and running (as a student) on iTalki, and you've found yourself a tutor that you like, and you have a 'system' with that teacher, things work pretty well. After all, the iTalki platform is essentially self-running.

However, if you run into problems, or can't figure out something about the poorly-designed interface on the site, there is essentially no customer support. Your only option for support is CHAT. Back and forth CHAT with a person who often doesn't have the best command of English. Also, Chat is far, far less effective for problem-solving, and the endless back and forth back and forth and then waiting a few minutes, for the rep to reply back to you, is inefficient, at best.

It's beyond irritating, when platforms such as this require little manpower once they are up and running...they make all kinds of profit off of both the teachers and the students....and then they offshore their customer support to lowly-paid agents, all so they themselves (the iTalki owners/leadership) can pocket all the more profits, for themselves.

I'm unable to see my teacher's calendar, and no one at iTalki can explain why. All they provide me with are FAQs, bots, or chat replies that come HOURS or DAYS later. You cannot solve problems this way. We need HUMANS available to speak with us, OVER THE PHONE.

It's disgraceful, that there's no true customer service anymore.

The strength of the platform lies with my tutor. Nadia is knowledgeable and patient answering all my questions. She calmly works with me to improve my conversational skills.

My Chinese teacher is very professional and I feel I have improved a lot since I study in this platform. Also it's great to take online classes. It's very flexible. Also the platform provides AI summary which helps me review what I learn from the lessons.