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Create a unique language homestay or find a perfect language exchange partner anywhere in the world based on your budget, where you want to stay, when, and for how long. Book a stay with a host or teacher who shares your hobbies, interests and lifestyle for a more relaxed, effective and fun experience. Or start a new adventure as a host or home-based language teacher.

Language learning for all ages. Totally flexible. Learn for pleasure, work or to pass an exam by joining the world’s biggest online language club. Read more...

Learn a language, host or teach

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Search
Find a host family, a teacher, or an exchange partner.
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Register
Choose your membership, register, publish your profile, start.
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Connect
Contact and get to know your host family, your teacher or your exchange partner.
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Book
Finalise the details of your stay via our secure an online reservation tool. You will receive a contract containing all the important details of the homestay.

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Lingoo is the world’s online language homestay club
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Book as many homestays as you like for one annual fee. This includes language exchanges, stays in your Teacher’s home, one-to-one tuition, or conversation training with a local host. Enjoy discounts when you renew your membership.
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With thousands of Lingoo members of all ages and covering the major European languages, the choice is yours. Our powerful search tools will even help you find partners who share your interests, so you can make language practice all the more fun.
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Stringent validation of all our members by a human being, through security checks, credentials, online evaluations and our secure messaging system ensure you can book with confidence.
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Our site includes powerful search tools, alerts for when a member matching your requirements joins, an easy-to-use account dashboard, a ‘My Selection’ page of your saved searches, and our secure messaging system.
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Lingoo was established in 2007 and has since become the world’s leading language homestay club. Help, support and advice can be found in the Help and Frequently Asked Questions sections.
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Learn a foreign language with Lingoo

Some things just can’t be learned in a classroom. Lingoo offers authentic language holidays for children, teenagers, family groups and adults of all ages through language exchanges, homestays and one-to-one language tutors. By staying with a friendly host family or language teacher, you, your child or small family group, can eat sleep and breathe a new language and culture. Whether preparing for an exam or feeding a personal passion for languages, complete immersion offers access to an intensive learning experience like no other.

We provide three great ways to learn a foreign language:

  • Language exchange – two families offer hospitality to each other; either as a family group, just the children or adults; this language swap is a totally modern approach to the traditional French, Spanish or German exchange.
  • Live and learn with your teacher – you, your child or small family group, stay in the home of a teacher to learn a language formally.
  • Stay with a host family – you, your child or small family group, stay with a host family for an authentic language immersion holiday.

Joining Lingoo allows you to book as many homestays for you, your child or your family as you like in the following 12 months.

With so many opportunities to learn a foreign language with Lingoo, the only challenge is choosing the best option. So here’s a quick guide:

  • Children and teenagers learn well through complete immersion. The combination of using the language every day coupled with encouragement and support on a language exchange, staying with a host family or staying in the teacher’s home, improves confidence and accelerates learning. 
  • Adults have exactly the same language immersion options. You can expand your existing language capabilities or learn new ones through conversation exchanges and language swaps when you stay in the home of a native speaker dedicated to helping you learn. 

There’s another way to share your love of languages with Lingoo:

Hosting foreign students in your home as a family is a fun way to offer paid stays and earn extra income. As a hosting family, just like a traditional French exchange or Spanish exchange, you provide accommodation and meals. But to make it even more fun, Lingoo encourages the student to match their interests with yours as the family hosting students. So you can offer opportunities to share your interests with your guests during each stay.

If you are qualified to teach a language as a foreign language, you can offer complete immersion to your students, alongside one-to-one tuition, from the comfort of your own home. Home language tuition is a growth area. The unrivalled opportunity for language practice offered by combining staying in a teacher’s home with formal lessons allows students to reach their goals – whether personal, professional or to pass exams – and faster than in a traditional classroom. Read more..

Student hosting with Lingoo offers you complete control. You decide who, when and for how long you host foreign students, as well as how much you charge and what you offer. You can even get to know each other before booking. To get started with student hosting or if you are new to hosting students and want to know more, Read more..