> Has anyone had success with finding tutors on platforms like italki.com? italki - yes, absolutely, but taking your time to do the research definitely pays of

> Has anyone had success with finding tutors on platforms like italki.com? italki - yes, absolutely, but taking your time to do the research definitely pays off. My method was to shortlist teachers who: (1) fit my linguistic needs (country/dialect, native speaker status etc); and (2) satisfied certain availability criteria (timezone, teaching days/hours etc); and (3) had a high enough number of students and -- critically -- a high enough total_lessons/total_student metric (I forget the cutoffs I used). I then looked through their profiles (there were by this point only tens of teachers left on my list for German), arranged trial lessons with a handful, and picked the one. Been with that teacher for a few months. Couldn't be happier with the experience and with my progress.