Organise a paid homestay with a Teacher for your child
You can arrange for your child to stay in the home of a qualified teacher for an opportunity to improve their language skills intensively. This is a paid stay arrangement. The teacher provides meals, accommodation, a warm welcome into their family life, and structured language lessons alongside opportunities to practise in authentic everyday situations. This offers the ideal preparation to pass a school exam, achieve professional goals or to improve fluency. You can find out more about staying in the home of a Teacher here.
Use the search tool to select your target language and your main criteria.
Next, narrow down the search results by selecting the criteria most important to you through the filter options.
Your search results appear with the most recently updated profiles at the top. Click ‘View this profile’ to see the Teacher’s profile in detail.
If you are logged on as a Parent Member (with a validated profile), you can now either contact Teacher Members or save their profiles in ‘My selection’ to contact them later. To save the profile to ‘My selection’, click ‘Add to selection’.
You can set up an alert to receive notification when a new profile matching your criteria goes live.
Read the details of each profile (particularly any evaluations from previous stays) and when you find a profile you like, contact the member to discuss the stay. Take this opportunity to not just check their availability but also get to know them and agree all the details of the stay. Ask Teachers to share their Credentials file, which will include their professional qualifications (to find out more about Credentials file, click here ).
For your own security, Lingoo advises strongly that all communication should remain within the Lingoo secure messaging system at all times.
When all aspects of the stay have been discussed and agreed with the Teacher Member, start a reservation by clicking ‘Reserve a stay’.
An online Paid Language Stay Contract is initiated by the Guest and completed by both parties. This important document outlines all the details of the stay that you and your Host have agreed.
Please do not confirm any travel arrangements until the contract is signed.
The contract sets out the terms of the homestay and the commitments made by each member to the other. It is completed (or modified) online alternately by the two members until they have reached an accord. It includes a list of commitments made by each of the members and provides security for the homestay.
The contract is a safety tool that increases the security of the homestay and the clarity of the transaction. Read more about the Paid Language Stay Contract.
When both parties have signed the contract, the Guest pays for the stay, together with a booking voucher and any applicable charges from Lingoo.
The booking voucher is calculated as 15% of accommodation and language lessons included automatically for Teachers’ stays. The Guest booking fee is calculated on the same items, as 5% for Free Members and 2.5% for Verified Members. Full Members do not pay this fee. Booking voucher and Guest booking fee are subject to VAT, depending on where you live.
Yes, you will, and, after your payment (and if you are a Free Member, when your security documents have been verified) you will have access to a PDF of the contract. Full contact details are shown when the stay is fully paid (and, if you are a Free Member, when your security documents have been verified). If, for any reason, you need to cancel your booking, please see Lingoo’s Cancellation Policy .
Payment for the stay is made through Lingoo in one or two payments, depending on the date of the booking, and the method of payment.
Shortly after the stay is completed, we will ask you to leave an evaluation of your experience. Please provide this important feedback as it helps us improve our service. Your evaluation will be published on the Teacher’s profile.
This is highly risky and prohibited by the membership rules. Lingoo provides important safeguards when booking and sending funds through our secure system, to protect both the Host and the Guest.
Your funds are held securely by Lingoo and our partner Tipalti in a regulated bank account, and we only pay your Teacher once the stay is underway and if you are satisfied. Also, if you need to cancel your trip for any reason you could be entitled to a refund from the funds held by Lingoo. You can read Lingoo’s cancellation policy here.
We also protect your confidentiality through our secure messaging system, carry out stringent identity validation and provide a completed contract containing all details of the agreement for each reservation. This contract can be used to prove the stay took place for insurance reasons and is highly important for under-age children or non-EU citizens who may need to present this document to pass through border controls. Members who reserve a stay outside the Lingoo system will be systematically removed from the site.
