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Student exchange programs

The Lingoo student exchange program brings families and young people together across cultures to enrich lives, create lifelong friendships and turn language learning into a genuine education.

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Student Exchange Programs

Join the Lingoo international student exchange program and you can experience a new culture, discover ideas that open your eyes to fresh opportunities, learn French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese or English in an exhilarating way, and make new friends who introduce you to their community.

With our student exchange program, you choose your host based on their profile. So you can find a host not only in the country and location where you would like to study but who also shares your interests and has a young person in the family of the same age. And to make sure you have a great experience together, you can contact your hosts using our secure messaging system to get to know them before you book. So rather than arriving to stay with strangers, your student exchange program partner becomes your friend. Study abroad, choose your host, learn more than you imagined ! 

Why a student exchange program?

The educational and cultural enrichment offered by a foreign exchange program is second to none. The thousands of young people who take part in a student exchange program each year say they have the time of their lives. They see the world from a new perspective, gain understanding of a new culture, and their host family becomes their ‘second family’ as lifelong friendships and bonds are formed.   

The language learning opportunities are rich too. Because you’re practising all day, learning new things, and sharing every day activities in your target language, you learn faster and without realising how much you’ve learned.

The Lingoo student exchange program has helped thousands of young people take the next step towards language fluency and maturity. Read more about joining Lingoo. 

How to book an international student exchange program

Students over 18 should join Lingoo as an Adult Member. Join now . Students under 18 must ask a parent or guardian to join as a Parent Member. Join now

How it works
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Search
Look through our published profiles for a member with a similar project to your own. Click on the search bar now (you don’t need to be a member).
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Register
Choose your subscription profile. Your membership provides access to unlimited language trips for a 12-month period.
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Connect
Connect to other members, match your interests and read evaluations from previous visitors. Get to know your partner member using our secure messaging system before making a booking.
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Book
Finalise the details of your stay via our secure an online reservation tool. You will receive a contract containing all the important details of the stay.
Learn a language during your gap year

Gap years can be a fun, valuable investment in your future if you use them to learn a new language. And the best ways to do that are through a homestay  or an exchange.

Living with a family abroad you eat, sleep and breathe the language. If you’re learning it for the first time, your host will guide you from your first few words to using the language in everyday situations. As your confidence grows, you’ll feel able to try your new skills in the local community. And because you’re making such an effort to learn the language, don’t be surprised if you make many new friends. At this stage, you’ll not only be gaining an insight into the language and culture but also the customs and community in which you’re living – something you just can’t learn in a classroom.

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Learn a language on your international student exchange program.

You can find host members from all over the world who are registered on Lingoo and ready to welcome you into their homes and help you to learn their language during your student exchange.

If you want to learn or improve your French, we have many Lingoo members living in France, Belgium and French speaking Switzerland.

If you want to learn or improve your German , we have many Lingoo members living in Germany, Austria and German speaking Switzerland.

To learn or improve your Italian in Italy click here and to learn or improve your Portuguese in Portugal click here. To learn or improve your Spanish in Spain click here. 

Lingoo is the only site of its kind on the market and all of our members have followed a registration process with a clear protocol governing identification and security.

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Learn English on your student exchange program

Students who want to improve their English, will find that we have a large number of student exchange families living in all parts of England and other parts of the United Kingdom Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The Republic of Ireland is a very popular destination for student exchanges to learn or improve English and made easy by the use of the Euro currency

Further away, Lingoo has a growing number of English speaking student exchange families in the U.S.A. (America) and Canada and also Australia and New Zealand.

For more intensive English language tuition in England, Ireland and other countries, Students could stay with an English teacher in England or stay with an English teacher in Ireland. Learning English whilst staying in your teacher’s home is an excellent way to make progress.

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