Vasiliki Baskou - Instructor/Director
Vasiliki Baskou is founder of learn-greek-online.com. She teaches modern Greek as a foreign language online via Zoom to students from around the globe. She is the program director for all courses and lessons available through Learn Greek Online, including:
- Preparing for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Greek.
- Greek Conversation Lessons, for persons who want to enhance their conversation skills.
- Personalized Greek Lessons, where lessons are customized to the student's needs.
- Tourists taking a short basic course in Greek language, before they visit Greece (Tourist Greek).
- Children learning Greek as a second language or needing to improve their Greek language skills.
She is an active member of the Quora community ( a question-and-answer site ), answering questions mainly about the Greek language and online learning. Her answers are listed here:
https://www.quora.com/profile/Vasiliki-Baskou
Moderates the ASK GREEK question/answer board.
Education
- 2002: Bachelor of Arts in Greek Language & Literature, with specialization in Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Professional Background / Teaching
- 2006-2012: Taught modern and classical Greek at public high schools, in the districts of Serres, Chalkidiki and Thessaloniki, Greece.
- 2006-2012: Tutored high school students modern and ancient Greek. Tutored Greek as a foreign language to students and persons that had moved to Greece. Prepared them to sit for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Greek.
- 2012: Began teaching Greek online.
- 2013: Founded learn-greek-online.com, an online school for teaching Greek as a second language through one-to-one webconference lessons.
- 2014: Launched the free service ASK GREEK. Anybody can ask a question related to the Greek language. She or other qualified teachers answer them.
- 2015-2016: Worked as "Independent Contractor" for Mango Languages ( https://mangolanguages.com ), a Michigan (USA) based company, specializing in online language learning:
- Authored educational material for their Greek online courses.
- Worked as a Live Coach for Mango students studying Greek.