Living and learning English with a teacher homestay in Ireland through Lingoo is a new intensive way to eat, sleep and breathe the English language. An English teacher homestay in Ireland allows you, your child or family group to benefit from a full linguistic and cultural immersion in an authentic Irish home environment.
With Lingoo, you choose your teacher based on their qualifications and experience, the type of accommodation they offer, choose when and where you stay – from a relaxed, rural setting in the Irish countryside to the bustling heart of a big city. Ireland is an island with the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. Depending on where your Lingoo partner lives, you can visit the exceptional Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Connemara in the west or the Ring of Kerry in the south west of County Kerry.
The green midlands, the lake regions, the cliffs overlooking the sea, have all played there part in creating the inspiring tales of Celtic culture. Visiting these places with people who live there and know the history well definitely the best way to immerse yourself in the Irish culture, tradition and English language.
Nature is the dominant force that has shaped Ireland but there are also interesting cities to visit during your stay. Dublin is a city that has been rejuvenated by the foreign investment generated by Ireland’s Celtic tiger policy of the mid 1990’s onwards. Dublin is today a rich busy city, full of pubs and restaurants and with a real European feeling.
During your stay, don’t miss a visit to Galway Bay, with the three rocky Aran Islands guarding the entrance to enclosing to the bay. The sea port of Cork is another place not to be missed in Ireland. And because you are staying in the home of a native speaker where English is spoken every day, you gain real life language practice opportunities in real day-to-day situations. What’s more, you become a part of that Irish family and immerse yourself in the local culture. When staying in the home of a qualified teacher in Ireland, these opportunities are supplemented with formal or informal lessons to help you develop your English language skills and build understanding.
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With a teacher homestay, you also have full control over how you learn English. For example, you can request intensive, one-to-one lessons, built around your specific needs. These could range from improving English conversational skills, more formal communication skills or even the basics of business writing. If you (or your child) are taking English exams Cambridge PET, FCE, CAE or IELTS, your teacher can provide carefully planned lessons and exam practice.
With an English teacher homestay in Ireland, you can even choose to be the only student staying with the teacher at that time. And because, with Lingoo, you pay the teacher directly, it’s an inexpensive way to find a structured and personalised language course.
• All Lingoo offers clearly state the qualifications and experience of the English teacher.
• All Lingoo offers clearly state whether you or your child will be the teacher’s only student
• All Lingoo offers clearly state whether the teacher guarantees that there will be no other students speaking your language.
Lingoo publishes many homestay offers from qualified English teachers in Ireland who specialise in teaching English as a foreign language [TEFL] and are qualified EFL [English as a foreign language] or CELTA [Certificate in teaching English to speakers of other languages teachers].
Living and learning in the home of your English teacher in Ireland is a personal and economic way to learn English that puts you in control. If you are interested in using Lingoo for your child or teenager, then please click here. If you are interested in using Lingoo for you or your family, then please click here. To learn about all other membership opportunities on Lingoo, please visit our home page.
Hundreds of approved qualified teachers are registered with Lingoo. You can choose a teacher based on where you want to stay, shared interests – even diet or religion. Each Lingoo teacher has a personal profile that includes references and evaluations from students who’ve stayed on a homestay with that teacher. This all helps to avoid that terrible moment when you first ring the teacher’s bell and wonder who will answer, because you already know each other.
Remember that Lingoo teachers go through a stringent validation process. Their identity and qualifications are checked personally by the Lingoo validation team before they can register with us. Together with references and visitor evaluations, contracts for each reservation, and support from the Lingoo team when misunderstandings occur, we ensure that your homestays are safe, secure and offer great value for money. The Lingoo contract is also there to help unaccompanied children pass through Immigration. Even your deposit is covered by our cancellation rules.
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