A totally flexible way to host guests from around the world in your own home, offering them a unique window into your language and culture. As a host family or qualified homestay teacher you can choose to host children, teenagers, adults or family groups.
Watch our video presentation , hear what our hosts and teachers say or download a brochure to read later.
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.
Our homestay teachers provide meals and accommodation alongside formal or informal lessons to help students accelerate their language acquisition. You need to hold a professional qualification to teach your own language, or another language, to non-native speakers. Read more about becoming a homestay teacher.
• Flexible: choose who stays in your home, when, for how long, and how much you charge
• Rewarding: earn extra income, meet new people
• Secure: Lingoo verifies all guests and provides secure financial transaction and messaging facilities
• Free: sign-up costs nothing.
Lingoo has been the largest online language club with members all over the world since 2007, so your services will be in high demand.
Read more about hosting. Click here to learn more about becoming a host family or click here to learn more about becoming a homestay teacher. Read our guide to money, tax and other important issues for host families and teachers.
You can find out more about the Lingoo community and how it works by visiting our FAQs.
What host families and homestay teachers say about hosting with Lingoo. You can find out how to be a better homestay teacher, home teaching as a business, and the pros and cons of hosting in general:
What makes a good Lingoo homestay language host
Earn Up To £7,500 Tax Free As A Host
The best way to find homestay guests
The new home business - foreign language exchanges
Successful paid-for language stays depend on good hosting families
Earn good money teaching English in your home
How A TEFL Qualification Can Increase Homestay Language Host Bookings
Why not read more of these stories and a range of other hosting topics on the Lingoo blog?