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Adult homestay programs

Choose a validated homestay host for adults and families who will welcome you into their home, provide a fulfilling cultural immersion and support your language learning.

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Adult homestay

Adults of all ages (young, middle aged, senior or retired) looking for a quality language homestay program at a reasonable price will find a huge choice of options on Lingoo, the language homestay club.  A perfect way to improve your French, Spanish, German, Italian or English with a home based language immersion stay.

Lingoo is different from other adult homestay programs.  Lingoo is a contact platform that allows adults and family groups seeking a cultural homestay or language learning homestay to get in contact directly with like-minded members and homestay hosts.

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Stay in the home of a local on a language homestay to improve your language skills all day. It’s a new way to travel the world and get inside a culture. You decide where you stay, who you stay with, when, and for how long. Making contact and then reserving your stay directly gives you much more control of your homestay project and will save you money. There are many thousands of like-minded homestay hosts registered on Lingoo to search through.

Adults can use Lingoo in four 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. 
  • Cultural Exchange: Stay with a host family - live and eat with a host family, learn about their culture and share your own.
  • Teach English Abroad: Stay with a Lingoo member and teach then English in return for accommodation and a cultural immersion.

Whether travelling alone, with your partner or family, you’ll find some warm and friendly welcomes waiting for you in some amazing locations all over the world. You might be studying for a professional qualification, brushing up your language skills, have a desire to teach English abroad or just want a more authentic cultural experience. A Living Language Holiday can help you do all of these things as part of an experience like no other.

Homestay hosts
homestay hosts

The Lingoo homestay 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.

Hosts are located all over the world and speak many different languages. Some hosts will be more interested in sharing their culture with you. Some will be more interested in sharing their language and others are interested in learning your language. All projects can be accommodated on Lingoo !

Once you have joined the site, clearly state your language objectives on your published profile. Make contact with other members and discuss your options. Within our wide range of profile types you are sure to find a partner member who shares similar options to you. That’s because Lingoo is a community or sharing site, we put people together and provide a secure environment where individual projects can be created.

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.

How it works
1
Search
Look through current homestay profiles. Visit the ‘Offers’ page (you don’t need to be a member)
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Register
Subscription provides the member access to unlimited language trips for a 12-month period
3
Connect
Connect to other members, match your interests and read evaluations from previous visitors. Get to know your homestay partner member using our secure messaging system.
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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.
Homestays for adults

Instead of going through an expensive school or agency, you can find your ideal homestay host, 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. 

Become a homestay host

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. 

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