Recommendations for remote/video foreign language tutors for kids

[resident_1]

Anyone have experience to share about working with virtual (i.e. zoom) language tutors for grade 1-12?
Did you find them by word of mouth in your community or use some service/website?
This will be one on one lessons.

Language interested include Mandarin, Russian, Spanish.

[Lordosis]

It's not a live interactive session but for a while I was using Rosetta Stone trying to teach myself italian. Then I kept having children and never got back to it. It's on my list of things to do. But I remember the program being very intuitive and I felt like it really could work if I gave it enough time.

I remember thinking that some of the stock photos were either way out of date or fashion in Italy is 20 years behind the US!

[juststarting]

preply.com

My spouse uses it to learn Spanish from a tutor living in Mexico City. He likes it and meets with them once a week. Many choices of tutors to choose from, some cheap, some expensive.

[FIREshrink]

Anyone have experience to share about working with virtual (i.e. zoom) language tutors for grade 1-12?
Did you find them by word of mouth in your community or use some service/website?
This will be one on one lessons.

Language interested include Mandarin, Russian, Spanish.

What level are the kids starting from? I've used iTalki a ton, mostly for myself (French and Spanish) and less for my kids (Chinese and Spanish). It works really well if you find a dynamic teacher and you already have at least a conversational level. It does not work as a place to start from scratch, especially for kids, unless you get really lucky and find a unicorn, an experienced immersion teacher type. My kids are fluent in Chinese so we use it to keep them fresh and to practice reading over the summer. But when they tried to learn Spanish from scratch it wasn't a good fit.

[resident_1]

What level are the kids starting from? I've used iTalki a ton, mostly for myself (French and Spanish) and less for my kids (Chinese and Spanish). It works really well if you find a dynamic teacher and you already have at least a conversational level. It does not work as a place to start from scratch, especially for kids, unless you get really lucky and find a unicorn, an experienced immersion teacher type. My kids are fluent in Chinese so we use it to keep them fresh and to practice reading over the summer. But when they tried to learn Spanish from scratch it wasn't a good fit.

Starting from scratch.