🇬🇷 The best tutors for learning Greek

Efi Asvesti teaches adults online with a deliberately low-pressure method — vocabulary-first, minimal homework, writing added only at advanced level — and publishes a free 'slow Greek' podcast that reached around 75 episodes by early 2026, together with free articles and a small library. The free podcast alone is worth subscribing to for graded listening. The classes are paid and pricing is not published, so you have to enquire; it is a single teacher, so availability is limited.

Omilo runs residential Greek language-and-culture courses in Athens, Nafplion, Syros, Lefkada and Naxos, plus private and online lessons — the option when you want to spend a couple of weeks inside the language. Its free side is genuinely worth having on its own: the 'Easy Greek Stories' podcast reads each story at slow and native pace with a downloadable notebook containing transcript, translation, exercises and answer key. New stories appear only about every two months, and the courses themselves are a significant expense.

One-on-one video lessons from roughly $5–30/hr depending on the language and the teacher's credentials. It is the single fastest way to get real speaking practice, and the reason most self-study plans stall is that they skip this step. Community tutors are cheap conversation partners; professional teachers are worth it if you want structure, homework and error correction.

100,000+ tutors across 120+ subjects, with a free replacement if your first tutor is a bad fit. The main structural difference from italki is that Preply pushes weekly lesson subscriptions and takes a large commission from tutors, which some learners consider a reason to prefer italki. Worth comparing side by side for your language — prices, availability and tutor quality differ per market rather than per platform.