Make your fun gap year a valuable investment in your future by practicing your language skills or learning a new one. There are two ways to practice or learn a new language during your gap year with Lingoo: while working as a Language Au Pair or on a homestay abroad.
Language Au Pairs live with local families for free in amazing places, experience new lifestyles, immerse themselves in another culture and language, all while gaining informal teaching experience during their gap year.
A homestay abroad is a chance to practice your language skills intensively with a native speaker host family or teacher during a full immersion gap year stay for a fee that includes accommodation, authentic meals and an insider view of the culture.
Travelling the world as a Language Au Pair is a new approach to working gap year holidays. Your host family provides authentic local meals and accommodation for free while you teach them conversation skills in your own language and learn more about theirs. Some hosts also offer a modest salary.
Requirements for a Language Au Pair:
- Aged 18-30
- No formal teaching qualifications
- An interest in people and desire to help them improve their English
- Unmarried
- No dependants.
Choose where you stay, when, and for how long. See pictures of host families and their homes in detailed online profiles, read reviews from previous guests, contact hosts to get to know them before you book.
You can start planning your gap year when you join Lingoo as a Language Au Pair. You’ll find lots of tips and advice on how to plan a great trip on our site.
Language learners can also book homestays abroad with a host family or book a stay in the home of a teacher for more formal, structured lessons.
On a homestay, you eat, sleep and breathe the language in the community where it is spoken every day. Choose where you stay, when, and for how long. Before you book, see pictures of host families and teachers and their homes in detailed online profiles, read reviews from previous guests, and contact hosts to get to know them.
Living with a host family or teacher in that community helps you learn faster than you would in a classroom. Click here to read more about a homestay abroad.
Teaching English on a homestay abroad is your opportunity to live with your host family teaching them English for a few hours a week while you immerse yourself in the country and culture. It is an ideal gap year option.
Stay for free in some amazing places with hosts who welcome you into their home and culture. At Lingoo, we call this gap year experience: ‘working as a Language Au Pair’.
Teaching English on a homestay abroad as a Language Au Pair allows you to gain valuable informal teaching experience without the need for a formal language teaching qualification. Read more about teaching English on a homestay abroad.
You can find members from all over the world who are registered on Lingoo and ready to welcome you into their homes as a language au pair and help you to learn their language during your gap year.
If you want to learn or improve your French, we have many Lingoo members living in France, Belgium and French speaking Switzerland.
If you want to learn or improve your German , we have many Lingoo members living in Germany, Austria and German speaking Switzerland.
To learn or improve your Italian in Italy click here. To learn or improve your Portuguese in Portugal click here and to learn or improve your Spanish in Spain click here.
Lingoo is the only site of its kind on the market and all of our members have followed a registration process with a clear protocol governing identification and security.
If you want to improve your English during your gap year, you will a large number of Lingoo members living in all parts of England and other parts of the United Kingdom – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Republic of Ireland is a very popular destination for gap year stays to learn or improve English and made easy by the use of the Euro currency
Further away, Lingoo has a growing number of English speaking members in the U.S.A. and Canada and also Australia and New Zealand.
For more intensive English language tuition in England, Ireland and other countries, you could stay with an English teacher in England or stay with an English teacher in Ireland as part of your gap year. Learning English whilst staying in your teacher’s home is an excellent way to make progress.