Find English language homestay family accommodation in New Zealand for adults, family groups, children or teenagers by searching through the published offers on Lingoo, the language exchange.
Lingoo are specialists in language homestay holidays in New Zealand . A New Zealand 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 New Zealand 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 homestay family in New Zealand 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 an English course, without the need for an expensive residential language school.
Some English teachers living in New Zealand also provide homestay accommodation and teaching in their own homes. If you are interested in learning English by staying in your teacher’s home, please click here.
Marked by volcanoes and glaciation, New Zealand is a long and narrow island nation, made up of two main landmasses and 600 smaller islands. The popular cosmopolitan cities of Auckland and the country's capital Wellington are situated on North Island with gorgeous beaches and great surf. Moody windswept coastlines, primeval forests, snow capped mountains and impressive geysers makeup the hiking paradise landscapes of Fiordland on South Island. There are lots of opportunities to see the penguins, whales and seals that ring the shores.
Renowned for its love of extreme sports, Queenstown is the place to head for bungee jumping, skiing, sea kayaking and whitewater rafting. Due to an 80 million year stretch of geographic isolation, New Zealand has a distinct biodiversity and is home to many flightless birds. The majority of the population is of European descent but indigenous Maori culture is also strong and biculturalism is celebrated in modern day Kiwi life.
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 New Zealand 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.
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