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Travelling overseas can be a daunting experience for even the most seasoned traveller; this is exacerbated when sending your child on a language exchange or hosted immersion holiday. For many parents, this will be the first time they will be sending their child to travel unaccompanied. Understandably, this can be a stressful prospect for both parent and child.


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Lingoo language exchanges and hosted homestay language holidays are specifically designed to facilitate the language development of children learning new languages through immersion in that chosen language. With more than 6,500 languages in use across the world, the growth of each language is dependent on a number of cultural, migratory, historical, political and economic factors.

 


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Lingoo is a community website, dedicated to improving language learning for children and teenagers. We accomplish this primarily by facilitating language exchange holidays, or establishing connections for parents to pay for their child to stay with a host family in a foreign country. Lingoo allows parents to get in contact with like-minded families, who have children of the same age, and who have the same interests and values.


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Organising a homestay language holiday through Lingoo is a different experience than booking through a traditional language holiday agency, because our unique platform gives you the flexibility, choice and information you need to find the perfect homestay language holiday for your child and your needs. There are a number of different criteria that may be important when choosing a host, such as availability, location and qualifications of possible host families. Here are a just a few of the many features that make the Lingoo experience unique: