For more than 10 years, Lingoo have been offering language exchange holidays for children and teenagers learning English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and many other languages.
We offer a totally modern approach to the traditional French exchange, Spanish exchange, German exchange or Italian exchange It’s a unique opportunity for children and teenagers to learn a language and experience a culture in an authentic way, sparking a love of learning and helping them form life-long friendships.
Just like a traditional language exchange, two families offer hospitality to each other in their own homes. Your child or teenager can stay in the home of a foreign family for an authentic language immersion experience. Later, you host the foreign child or teenager in your own home for a similar experience. You can arrange long or short stays. You can even combine the stay with a local language course or arrange for your child to attend a local school
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During their language exchange stay, your child will be completely immersed in the country's language and culture in ideal conditions, because they'll be involved in the family's everyday life. This option needs a significant level of personal involvement, a clear sense of organisation and, of course, the basic material conditions for each of the exchange families to welcome their guest appropriately. If you feel ready for the experience you will offer your child a fantastic value language holiday that you will feel like repeating again and again...
Language exchanges for children and teenagers
A language exchange for your child or teenager is a very different language immersion stay than a traditional language school.
- Parents choose and get to know the language exchange partner family before reserving.
- You have time to get to know your language exchange partner family before travel and avoid that awful moment when you arrive at the doorstep to meet strangers.
- Your child or teenager will be completely immersed into family life and surrounded by speakers of their target language.
- Language exchanges are very good value for money compared to a traditional language school.
Choose your language exchange partner from thousands of registered and approved families with detailed profiles on our site. Simply find a family in the place you’d like to stay, look through their profile photos, see if you share the same interests, diet and even religion. If you like what you see, contact them through our secure messaging system, get to know them and when you’re both happy, book a language exchange.
In addition to language exchanges for children and teenagers, Lingoo offers a range of language immersion options.
- Homestay with a teacher – your child can stay in the home of a qualified teacher for structured language lessons.
- Homestay with a host family – your child can live with a host family for an authentic language and culture homestay.
- Language Au Pair – receive a language Au Pair in your own home for native speaker language support for your child or children.
You need to know that your young learner’s language exchange will be safe and secure. Since 2007, we have been using a stringent validation process for 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.