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.
Language Au Pairs have no domestic duties on their homestay. It’s about teaching English to your hosts as part of your working holiday or gap year. Your hosts provide authentic local meals and accommodation while you teach them conversation skills in your own language. Some of our hosts 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.
Planning a homestay abroad as a Language Au Pair is the first step in planning a gap year to remember. You choose where you stay, when and for how long. Our hosts all have personal profiles on Lingoo.com so you can see who you will stay with, see inside their home, learn about their interests and read reviews from previous guests. We even make it easy to get to know your hosts 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.
There are three ways to learn a language with Lingoo:
- Language exchange – you stay with a family in a foreign country then the other family’s member (or members) stays with you and your family. Find out more
- Homestay – you stay with a family in a foreign country. Find out more
- Stay with a teacher – you stay in the home of a teacher in a foreign country for more structured lessons. Find out more.
Our hosts all over the world are ready to welcome you into their homes to help you learn their native language. Each has been approved using stringent security checks by the Lingoo team. Now they are ready to help you learn fast, grow in confidence, and experience their culture and lifestyle.