Join Lingoo as a host family and help meet an ever increasing demand for fine English speaking host family accommodation for children, adults and family groups.
Register free of charge as a host family on Lingoo and experience the pleasure of hosting foreign exchange students and open your family's minds to the wider world.
• Offering host family accommodation can supplement your income in a way that's enjoyable and fits perfectly into family life.
• Our clear and straightforward reservation procedure increases the security of your home accommodation activity and of the financial transaction with your guest. And because there is no middleman to work through, you choose your own guests and manage your own dates and prices.
• Host families who take time to share traditions and culture and allow their guests to participate in a wide range of family activities are in great demand.
Host families are wanted throughout the country. Host an international student on Lingoo and your host family offer will be visible to people all around the world - so the whole world can come to stay... if you want!
Host children and adults
By becoming a Lingoo Host Family, you'll be helping to meet an ever-increasing demand!
Learning English is an essential skill for any person's future and the best way to learn is by going and practicing in a country where English is spoken.
But finding a family-based English language immersion stay that guarantees a warm welcome, is reasonably priced and easy to organise, is another matter altogether. By becoming a Host Family, you'll be helping to meet an ever-increasing demand!
By becoming a Lingoo Host Family, you can experience the pleasure of offering hospitality and open your family's minds to the wider world.
Welcoming a student from another culture is an experience that everyone in the family will benefit from: an opportunity to find more out about the world, the enjoyment of sharing new ideas, the chance to understand another person's values, to be exposed to another language, and so much more. By becoming a Host Family, you can experience the pleasure of offering hospitality and open your family's minds to the wider world.
By becoming a Lingoo Host Family, you can supplement your income in a way that's enjoyable and fits perfectly into family life.
Family life can be pretty complicated when both parents work. By becoming a Host Family, you can supplement your income in a way that's enjoyable and fits perfectly into family life.
Lingoo is looking for host families who:
• Can provide a welcoming family atmosphere to foreign students from abroad
• Can provide 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 students staying with them, stimulating activities, from hobbies and sports to fun day trips.
Read what our hosts say about hosting with Lingoo. You can find out how to be a better host, home teaching as a business, and the pros and cons of hosting in general:
What makes a good Lingoo homestay language host?
Deciding the best way of finding homestay guests
Why hosting homestays is so rewarding
The new home business - foreign language exchanges
How A TEFL Qualification can increase homestay language host bookings
How much do Lingoo homestay hosts earn?
An earning opportunity for British host families living in France
Why not read more of these stories on a range of other hosting topics on our blog?
If you have a teaching qualification, you could become a homestay teacher. Teachers provide meals and accommodation alongside formal or informal lessons to help 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.