Find French language homestay family accommodation in France for adults, family groups, children or teenagers by searching through the published offers on Lingoo, the language exchange. Lingoo are specialists in French language homestay holidays in France. A French homestay is a way of travelling like no other, offering true value, for people of all ages. 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.
With Lingoo, you find and select homestay families in France directly, without the need for an expensive and sometimes impersonal agency giving you much more choice and control of where you or your child will stay.
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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.
During the stay with the French speaking homestay family in France you or your child or teenager will be completely immersed in the language, culture and daily family life. Many homestay families will also help you to organise a French course, without the need for an expensive residential language school.
Some French teachers living in France also provide homestay accommodation and teaching in their own homes. If you are interested in learning French by staying in your teacher’s home, please click here.
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. In short, booking a stay with a French homestay host through Lingoo is a totally immersive, fun way to learn a foreign language.
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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. 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.
Learning with Lingoo is the most authentic way to learn French in France. Staying with a Lingoo member living in France that you have selected personally is the best way to ensure that you get the most out of your French trip. France is so full of magnificent sights and places to visit.
Depending on your tastes, you could go hiking, sightseeing in interesting towns and cities or visit interesting museums, guaranteeing you a complete immersion in French culture and the French language. There is so much choice of where to spend your language trip. You could an explore the most beautiful areas of Brittany and Normandy, visit the romantic sights and wonderful architecture of Paris or the historic centre of Bordeaux.
No trip to France would be complete without sampling French cooking and touring the food markets where the ingredients of the most popular dishes are found. Only by living with a local family will you get to sample the real traditions and lifestyle of day to day life, in French.
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