Online speaking clubs — Georgia
English speaking clubs in Georgia.
English has become the aspirational second language for a generation of Georgians, and the economy has moved faster than the supply of people to practise it with.
Speaking English in Georgia
Why organisations here book speaking clubs.
Something has shifted in Georgia over the past couple of decades. For older generations the automatic second language was Russian; for people now entering the workforce it is emphatically English, and the motivation behind that is practical rather than academic — tourism, remote work, international clients and the possibility of studying abroad.
The constraint is supply. Enthusiasm for English is high and the number of native speakers available to practise with, especially outside Tbilisi, is not. That mismatch is the whole reason an online club makes sense here: it removes the geography from the problem entirely.
Tbilisi has the business services, the technology firms and the universities. Batumi has a hospitality sector that deals with English-speaking visitors constantly. Both, plus schools across the country, run clubs on the same format: groups of up to six, sixty minutes, a structured topic.
Who books them
Three kinds of organisation, one format.
The club itself is the same in each case — up to six people, sixty minutes, a prepared topic. What changes is the material and who is in the room.
Where the demand comes from
What drives it in Georgia.
Georgian demand comes mainly from three directions.
Tourism and hospitality
Hotels, tour operators and restaurants in Tbilisi, Batumi and the mountain regions deal with English-speaking visitors daily. Staff need speed and confidence in short exchanges — checking in a guest, handling a complaint, explaining a menu — far more than they need grammatical polish.
Business services and outsourcing
A growing sector serving clients abroad. English is the working language and the standard expected on a live call is high, which makes unscripted practice valuable.
Technology and remote work
Georgian professionals working for foreign employers, plus the international remote-working population that has settled in Tbilisi and Batumi. Both create everyday demand for confident conversational English.
Schools and universities
Enthusiasm is not the bottleneck — practice is
Georgian students take unified national examinations at the end of school, and English is a central part of how families think about their children's prospects. Motivation is genuinely high.
What is scarce is speaking time with someone whose English is native. A class of thirty gives each student a minute or two, and outside the capital the chance of regular contact with a native speaker is slim. Six students for a full hour, weekly, is a different order of exposure.
Georgian universities, including the English-taught medical programmes that attract international students, produce cohorts who read and write English well and often speak it hesitantly. That is the specific imbalance the clubs address.
Scheduling
Working across the time difference.
Georgia stays on UTC+4 all year, so it is four hours ahead of the UK in winter and three in summer. A 19:00 club in Tbilisi is 15:00 or 16:00 for the host, which makes evening sessions comfortable for both sides.
Weekly pricing
The same prices everywhere.
Prices do not change by country. Each club lasts 60 minutes with a maximum of six participants, and includes all preparation, materials and hosting.
| Weekly groups | Speaking time | Price per week |
|---|---|---|
| 1 group | 1 x 60 minutes | £40 |
| 2 groups | 2 x 60 minutes | £70 |
| 3 groups | 3 x 60 minutes | £90 |
| 4 groups | 4 x 60 minutes | £100 |
| Trial speaking club | 1 x 60 minutes | £20 |
Questions
Asked from Georgia.
Can schools outside Tbilisi and Batumi take part?
Yes, and this is where the online format earns its keep. A school in Kutaisi, Telavi or Akhaltsikhe gets the same British host as a school in the capital, with no travel involved.
Our hotel staff have very mixed levels. How do you handle that?
We split them into groups of up to six by level. In hospitality this matters more than usual, because the confident front-desk staff will otherwise dominate and the kitchen and housekeeping teams will say nothing.
What time do Georgian groups usually choose?
Evening, typically 18:00 to 20:00 local time, which is mid-to-late afternoon for the host. Hotels often prefer a late-morning slot in the low season instead.
How big is a group?
Six people maximum. Larger groups look better value until you divide the hour by the number of people in it — at ten or twelve, the quieter half stops speaking altogether.
What happens if someone misses a week?
Nothing. Each club is self-contained, there is no homework and nothing to catch up on, so an absence does not leave anyone behind.
Arrange a trial club in Georgia.
Tell us who the group is, roughly what level they are and which weekly times could work. A single 60-minute trial club costs £20.