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Some things simply can’t be learned in a classroom. With Lingoo, children and teenagers can eat, sleep and breathe a new language and culture through carefully chosen host family and teacher-led stays. Help your child improve their French, German, Spanish, Italian and other languages through complete immersion in a real home environment.
Host families share their interests, hobbies and local activities, making language learning engaging and naturally woven into daily life.
Different ages benefit from different levels of structure and independence. Here’s how Lingoo supports both.
Choose the right experience for your child
Younger Children: Supportive, structured immersion in a welcoming family home
Younger learners benefit most from gentle daily structure, close supervision and consistent encouragement. Staying with a trusted host family, ideally one with children of a similar age, allows language learning to happen naturally through meals, activities and shared routines.
For families seeking additional structure, a homestay with a qualified teacher combines immersion with one-to-one lessons.
Designed for: Close support and supervision | Encouraging home environments | Steady, confidence building progress | Safe and nurturing immersion
Teenagers: Confidence building immersion with growing independence
Teenagers thrive when they are immersed in real life language use while being supported by trusted adults. A host family stay allows them to practise the language every day, build independence and experience authentic culture.
For exam preparation or accelerated progress, living in a qualified teacher’s home combines daily immersion with structured one-to-one lessons.
Designed for: Building fluency and independence | Cultural confidence | Structured academic support | Optional peer exchange opportunities
For confident teens with a good grasp of the language, peer-to-peer language exchange can also be an option.
For families looking to learn together, you can also explore our language holidays for family groups.
How It Works
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Join now
Choose the membership that suits your needs, create your account and publish your profile. Complete the questionnaires carefully to help us find the best possible match for you.
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Connect
Contact your chosen host family, teacher or exchange partner and begin getting to know each other. Share expectations and ask questions using our secure messaging system.
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Book
Confirm the details of your stay through our secure online reservation tool. Make your payment safely and receive a contract outlining all important homestay information.
What is a language homestay?
A language homestay allows your child or teenager to stay with a host family for full cultural and linguistic immersion, or with a teacher for structured, focused learning. Living in a real home environment helps build confidence, fluency and exam readiness through daily use of the language.
What is a homestay with a teacher?
A homestay with a teacher combines daily immersion with one-to-one lessons in the teacher’s home. All Lingoo homestay teachers are professionally qualified to teach the language they offer, providing structured support alongside natural practice.
What is a language exchange?
Two members offer hospitality to each other’s children of the same age. It offers children and teenagers a fun way to make new friends and experience a new culture as part of learning and using a foreign language.
Make learning fun
Search for a language stay with someone who shares your young learner’s interests, your lifestyle and even religion. Most hosts are happy to share their hobbies and provide fun activities and day trips. All these elements make up a successful language homestay experience.
Security is at the heart of our approach
You need to know that your child’s language holiday will be safe and well managed.
Since 2007, every Lingoo member has undergone personal validation by our team. No one can actively use the platform without first being reviewed by a human being. We check each member’s profile when they register. Identity and proof-of-address documents are required and verified before any booking is confirmed.
Parent reviews are published on host profiles for added reassurance, and hosts can also provide additional credentials on request.
Your personal information is protected on secure, encrypted servers. Protected messaging allows you to connect with hosts and ask questions before booking, and all financial transactions are safeguarded through enhanced security systems. Our dedicated support team is also on hand to assist before and during the stay.
Learn more about how Lingoo keeps every stay safe.
Become a Parent Member
Join Lingoo as a Parent Member to begin arranging language immersion stays. Your annual membership allows you to organise multiple stays within a 12 month period, giving you flexibility as your child’s confidence and goals develop.
Read more about becoming a Parent Member or create your free profile.
You can also explore our FAQs and blog pages to learn more about how Lingoo works and read real life stories from our community.
For families looking to learn together, you can also explore our language holidays for family groups.