By staying with a friendly host family in Ireland, you, your child, teenager or family group can eat, sleep and breathe the English language (and Irish culture) as part of a total language immersion. Staying with a host family offers a relaxed, fun, yet intensive approach to language learning. Your child might be preparing for an English exam. Or perhaps you’d like to feed a personal passion to improve your English. Staying with a host family in Ireland offers great value for money. There are no fees to pay to a middleman, so it’s cheaper than a language school or an agency. It’s an effective way to learn because you live with your host family, practising English all day and avoiding the temptation to speak to other students in your native language.
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Your hosts provide a welcoming environment, support your learning, and offer an authentic window into their culture. And to help you make the most of your stay, you communicate with your host family before you book, getting to know them and their interests.
Lingoo has hundreds of registered, approved host families in Ireland. We’re confident you’ll find one where you want to stay, that shares your interests, and even your diet or religion. Each host family has a personal profile that includes their interests as well as references and evaluations from previous guests. And because you’re able to communicate before you travel, both parties avoid that awful moment when you first ring the doorbell and wonder who will answer – because you already know each other.
If you are interested in finding a host through Lingoo for your child or teenager, then please click here. If you are interested in finding a host for you or your family, then please click here. To learn about all other membership opportunities on Lingoo, please visit our home page.
Finding a host family in Ireland that best suits your lifestyle and interests is so much easier when you use Lingoo.
Lingoo host family 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. The identity of every host is checked personally by the Lingoo 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 safe, secure and offer great value for money. Even your deposit is covered by our cancellation rules. Click here to JOIN NOW.
Ireland is an island with the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. Depending on where your Lingoo partner lives, you can visit the exceptional Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Connemara in the west or the Ring of Kerry in the south west of County Kerry.
The green midlands, the lake regions, the cliffs overlooking the sea, have all played there part in creating the inspiring tales of Celtic culture. Visiting these places with people who live there and know the history well definitely the best way to immerse yourself in the Irish culture, tradition and English language.
Nature is the dominant force that has shaped Ireland but there are also interesting cities to visit during your stay. Dublin is a city that has been rejuvenated by the foreign investment generated by Ireland’s Celtic tiger policy of the mid 1990’s onwards. Dublin is today a rich busy city, full of pubs and restaurants and with a real European feeling.
During your stay, don’t miss a visit to Galway Bay, with the three rocky Aran Islands guarding the entrance to enclosing to the bay. The sea port of Cork is another place not to be missed in Ireland.
The Irish people are renowned for their warmth and hospitality, making Ireland a perfect destination for your, or your child’s, language holiday.
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