Hosting international foreign exchange students in your home with Lingoo involves no long-term commitments. It’s entirely flexible and allows you to rent out your spare room and experience new cultures by offering homestay to foreign exchange students and international students in your home. Hosting exchange students for money is an enjoyable way to supplement your income. Joining is free and subject to validation. Choose to host children, teenagers, adults or family groups. As a host to foreign exchange students, your role is to provide a warm welcome, accommodation and meals, help your international exchange student guests practice their language skills, and experience your culture through everyday home life. Watch our video presentation or download a brochure to read later.
Host children and adults
Our families hosting international foreign exchange students range from the traditional – with two adults and one or more children – to one-parent families, young couples without children, retired couples and people who live alone.
Lingoo is looking for homestay hosts who:
• Can provide a welcoming family atmosphere to international foreign exchange students from abroad
• Can provide international students with their own room, where possible, and home-cooked meals
• Have no formal language teaching qualifications but could help someone build confidence in their language skills (if you are a qualified language teacher, please click here ).
• Can help international students organise a suitable local language course, if requested
• Can offer foreign exchange students staying with them, stimulating activities, from hobbies and sports to fun day trips.
Read more in our FAQ section.
The international foreign exchange students staying with you will need to know they will be in a safe and secure environment on a Lingoo language homestay. 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.