Language homestays allow children or teenagers to eat, sleep and breathe a foreign language. Staying with a friendly host family abroad provides that unique space in which they can grow in confidence, build language proficiency and even gain maturity and independence.
During their language homestay your child or teenager will be completely immersed in the country's language and culture in ideal conditions because they'll be involved in the family's everyday life. They may also – why not? – take a language course during the stay; that will be all the easier if your homestay family lends a hand in organising it. Some of our homestay families for children offer one to one language tuition themselves.
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Parents can use Lingoo in the following ways :
- Teacher Homestay: Stay with your teacher – stay in the home of a teacher for structured language lessons.
- Homestay: Stay with a host family – live and eat with a host family for an authentic language learning homestay.
- Language Au Pair : Receive a language Au Pair in your own home for native speaker language support for your child or children.
- Language exchange : A two-way exchange between families where both offer hospitality to each other’s children.
Take back control of where your child or teenager stays on a language homestay. You decide where they stay, who they stay with, when, and for how long. Making contact and then reserving your stay directly gives you much more control of your child's language homestay and will save you money. There are many thousands of like-minded homestay hosts registered on Lingoo to search through.
A language homestay for your child or teenager is a very different language immersion stay than a traditional language school.
- Parents choose and get to know the homestay family before reserving.
- You have time to get to know your language homestay family before your children travel and avoid that awful moment when they arrive at the doorstep to meet strangers.
- Your child or teenager will be completely immersed into family life and surrounded by speakers of their target language.
- Homestays are very good value for money compared to a traditional language school.
Choose your homestay family from thousands of registered and approved families with detailed profiles on our site. Simply find a homestay family in the place you’d like to stay, look through their profile photos, see if you share the same interests, diet and even religion. If you like what you see, contact them through our secure messaging system, get to know them and when you’re both happy, book a language homestay.
The Lingoo hosts who provide quality homestay for adults are a diverse and flexible group of people. You will find traditional and single-parent families, single adults and retirees. Each has a slightly different project and all can be accommodated within the Lingoo site. The one thing they all have in common though is that they firmly believe learning a foreign language should be a fun and natural process.
Our hosts will help you learn and practise your target language in everyday situations, such as cooking, chatting around the dinner table or practicing a hobby or interest. Our homestay families understand that an important part of their role is providing students with a cultural as well as a language immersion.
All members on Lingoo have passed a strict validation process conducted by one of our team. Our procedures have been put in place to ensure every homestay is safe, secure and great value for money. We check the identity of every host, together with references and proof of address. In addition, we provide visitor evaluations, contracts for each reservation, and support from the support team to ensure that your homestay is the ideal way to improve your language skills.
Instead of going through an expensive school or agency, you can find your ideal homestay host for your child by searching through the Lingoo data base. Lingoo publishes the profiles of approved homestay hosts from all over the world who are ready to welcome you into their homes and share their culture and language.
If you want to learn or improve your French, we have many French homestay members living in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada.
If you want to learn or improve your German , we have many German homestay members living in Germany and Austria.
If you want to learn or improve your Italian we have many homestay families in Italy.
For Spanish learners we have hundreds of homestay families in Spain and a growing number in South America.
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 students 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.
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.
Lingoo is recruiting host families. Our host families provide accommodation, meals, day trips and social activities for their guests, as well as an authentic experience of their culture and everyday life. No formal language teaching qualifications are required, just enthusiasm to help someone build confidence in their language skills. Read more about becoming a host family.