A homestay is the perfect way to improve or learn new foreign language skills. A language immersion homestay is a way of travelling like no other, offering true value, for children, teenagers, adults and families. Your homestay hosts will welcome you into their home, provide home-cooked meals, an insider’s guide to the local community, and take you to see the sights and sounds that tourists can only dream of.
Learn a language in an authentic way with a language homestay reserved through Lingoo. Meet real people, stay in their homes – anywhere in the world – and discover the authentic local culture whilst improving your language skills.
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Book a language homestay as a city break or a rural getaway, for a weekend or a few weeks. Homestay experiences can be tailor made by you. Discuss with your hosts how long you’d like to stay, what you’d like to do and every other detail of your homestay before you book. And because you make bookings and payments directly with your hosts, you also make big savings.
All our homestay hosts have detailed profiles, including photos of themselves, the room where you will stay, their home and the local community, as well as references and evaluations from previous guests. And because we want you to have a great experience on your homestay, all our hosts share their interests and hobbies on their profiles. So you can find one with similar interests and use our secure messaging system to get to know them before you book.
You could learn to make pizza in Italy while improving your Italian or boost your tennis skills in France with a French-speaking coach who will help your language skills too. Lingoo has thousands of registered, approved host families. We’re confident you’ll find one where you want to stay, that shares your interests, and even your diet or religion.
Lingoo homestay host profiles are diverse. They range from traditional and single-parent families to single adults and retirees. But all of them believe that learning a foreign language should be fun and full of the discovery that classroom settings simply cannot offer. They will help you learn and practise the language in everyday situations and while indulging your hobbies. If you would also like structured language lessons, click here to find out more about staying with a homestay teacher.
Some hosts can also arrange to pick you (or your child) up at the airport or station and transport you there again when you return home. The Lingoo contract is also there to help unaccompanied children pass through immigration.
We ensure every homestay is safe, secure and great value for money. The identity of every host is checked personally by the Lingoo validation team before they can register with us. Together with references and visitor evaluations, contracts for each reservation, and support from the Lingoo team when misunderstandings occur, we ensure that your homestays are the ideal way to improve your language skills. Even your deposit is covered by our cancellation rules.
In short, booking a stay with a homestay host through Lingoo is a totally immersive, fun way to learn a foreign language. And it will probably be an experience you will want to repeat.
Lingoo is recruiting host families. Join our global community of homestay hosts and teachers who earn extra income and experience new cultures by providing language and cultural holidays and teaching from their own home. Read more about becoming a homestay host and read more about becoming a homestay teacher.
Instead of using an expensive language school or agency, you, your child, teenager or family group can find homestay hosts from all over the world who are registered on Lingoo and ready to welcome you into their homes and share their culture.
If you, your child, teenager or family group want to learn or improve your French, we have many French homestay members living in France, Belgium and French speaking Switzerland and French Canada.
Why not look for a French language homestay in a major city? Lingoo has many members living in Paris, Brussels or Montreal.
If you, your child, teenager or family group want to learn or improve your German , we have many German homestay members living in Germany, Austria and German speaking Switzerland. Click to find a homestay in Italy, and to find a homestay in Portugal or Brazil.
Looking for a Spanish language homestay in Spain or one of Spain's major cities? Lingoo has many members living in Barcelona or Madrid.
Lingoo is the only site of its kind on the market and all of our homestay hosts have followed a registration process with a clear protocol governing identification and security.
Instead of using a language school, you, your child, teenager or family group can find English speaking homestay hosts who are registered on Lingoo and ready to welcome you into their homes and help you to improve your or your child’s English.
We have a large number of English homestay hosts living in all parts of the United Kingdom – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Look for homestay hosts in one of the popular cities: London, Cambridge , Oxford, Brighton and Bournemouth.
The Republic of Ireland is a very popular destination for members seeking an English speaking homestay made easy by the use of the Euro currency. Look for homestay hosts in one of the popular cities such as Dublin, Cork, Kerry, Galway or Limerick.
Further away, Lingoo has a growing number of English homestay hosts in America (U.S.A). and Canada and also Australia and New Zealand.
There are many English speaking homestay hosts living in Spain and who many English speaking homestay hosts living in France, who offer an English welcome without the need to travel. Finally, If you would like more formal language lessons by staying in the home of your teacher , then read more information about staying in your teachers home.