Host an international student in your home through Lingoo. Being a Lingoo host is a very rewarding experience and allows you to earn additional income without making any long-term commitments. Being a host to international students is flexible activity and allows you to open your home to foreign guests and experience new cultures by offering a warm homestay and a cultural immersion to your visitors.
Joining Lingoo as a host to international students is completely free of charge, but subject to validation. You can choose to accept children, teenagers, adults or family groups. As a host to international students, your role is to provide a warm welcome, accommodation and meals, help your international student guests practice their English language skills, and experience your culture through everyday home life and participation in family activities. Watch our video presentation or download a brochure to read later.
Host children and adults
Our hosts all have different profiles. Some families with two adults and one or more children, some to one-parent families, young couples without children, older couples and people who live alone.
Lingoo is looking for hosts that can:
- Can offer a warm and welcoming homely atmosphere to international students from overseas.
- Can provide students with their own room and home-cooked meals
- Hosts don't need to have a teaching qualification, but be willing to help their visitor build confidence in using English through day to day conversations and participation in family activities.
- Can help students, if needed, find a local English language course.
- Can offer foreign exchange students staying with them, stimulating activities, from hobbies and sports to fun day trips.
If you are a qualified language teacher, please click here. Read more about being a host in our FAQ section.
The students staying with you will need to know they will be in a safe and secure environment with a Lingoo host. Since 2007, we have been using a stringent validation process for all of our members; no one can actively use our site without first being validated by a human being. We physically check each member’s profile and members must supply a current identification document and proof of address. For added security, we allow members to create a credentials file (available to members on request). Our hosts are then evaluated by visitors with feedback left on their Lingoo profile.
We also protect your personal information on our secure servers in an encrypted form and our secure messaging system maintains your privacy during communication with other members. Any financial transactions through Lingoo are also safeguarded through enhanced security. Read more about security on Lingoo.
If you have a teaching qualification, you could become a homestay teacher. Teachers provide meals and accommodation alongside formal or informal lessons to help international students accelerate their language acquisition. You need to hold a professional qualification to teach your own language to non-native speakers. Read more about becoming a homestay teacher.
Teachers of English as a foreign language (with relevant ESL or EFL experience and a recognized TEFL Certificate) are in high demand.