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The beauty of a Lingoo language experience is that at the same time as improving your chosen language, you can also discover a new and exciting destination, all in the most authentic way possible for being with the locals. Lingoo hosts are dotted literally all over the world so make the most of our location search facility to pinpoint your preferred location.


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If you love meeting new people and helping them learn, offering homestay language immersion stays or hosting foreign students is the perfect way to bring in some extra money without having someone permanently living in your home.

Under current U.K. tax saving rules you can earn up to £7,500 per year, that’s £625 per month, tax free by renting out a furnished room in your home through the government rent-a-room scheme.

How does it work?


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We think that staying with a host family and living like a local in a new country is the absolute best way to experience and learn about different cultures, and there are many other positives too. Here are 7 benefits to teaching English abroad as a language au pair.

1.Deeper Understanding of Local Culture


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Lingoo member Philippa Roberts agreed to a quick Q&A to share her hosting experiences.

What made you decide to become a host?

Having been on several language trips myself as a teenager, I very much wanted the same opportunities for my own children. They were too young at the time I started hosting but I figured that having a stream of European youngsters in our home would make language travel the most natural thing in the world to them when their time came. The fact that I could earn a small income from it too was a bit of a bonus.


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