By staying with a friendly Italian host family, you, your child, teenager or family group can eat, sleep and breathe the Italian language and culture as part of a total language immersion. Lingoo has hundreds of registered, approved Italian hosts living in all parts of Italy.
Staying with an Italian host family offers a relaxed, fun, yet intensive approach to learning Italian. Your child might be preparing for an exam. Or perhaps you’d like to feed a personal passion to improve your Italian. Staying with an Italian host 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 Italian all day and avoiding the temptation to speak to other students in your native language.
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Your Italian 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.
We’re confident you’ll find an Italian host family 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 an Italian speaking host family in Italy 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.
The epicentre of the Roman empire and the birthplace of renaissance, Italy was and still is a very important and powerful European country. Only being united as a country in 1861, its 20 regions are more akin to individual states with different dialects, traditions, architectural styles and specialist cuisines. Of course Italian food is known the world over but nowhere is it better enjoyed than authentically in Italy itself.
From the colosseum and pantheon in Rome to the Duomo and Michelangelo’s ‘David’ sculpture in Florence, the country has an unparalleled amount of artistic treasures. The natural landscape of Italy is also extraordinarily diverse ranging from the Northern snow capped alps to the Southern sun drenched Amalfi coast. Life in Italy is very much about living well and indulging in the finer things, whether that be sipping a freshly ground coffee in a quaint cafe in Venice or shopping until you drop in the fashion capital of Milan.
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