With a UK student exchange program you can study English and enjoy a complete English language immersion with a friendly host family. On a Lingoo UK student exchange, you choose your host based on their profile. So you can find a host in the UK living in a town or city where you would like to study but who also shares your interests.
The UK is a country rich in diversity and cultural landscape, divided into four nations: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Depending on your preference you can stay and enjoy the green valleys of the Highlands, the busy and exciting cities of London or Manchester or the wonderful scenery of the Cornish coastline.
A student exchange in the UK will enable you to see and experience all the traditions of the United Kingdom. Perhaps you will learn how to cook the Sunday Roast, sipping the famous "five o'clock tea" or watching a live cricket match. Not forgetting the chance to sample a real fish and chips meal.
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If you prefer the hustle and bustle or city life, you could spend time in one of the major cities of the UK: Your chance to live in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, in the most original way possible.
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 UK student exchange program partner becomes your friend.
The educational and cultural enrichment offered by a UK student exchange experience is second to none. The hundreds of young people who take part in LIngoo's UK student exchange program each year say they have the time of their lives. They see the world from a new perspective, gain understanding of UK culture, and their host family becomes their ‘second family’ as lifelong friendships and bonds are formed.
English language learning opportunities are rich too. Because you’re practising all day, learning new things, and sharing every day activities in speaking English, you learn faster and without realising how much you’ve learned.
Many of the UK host families will also help you to organise a local language course to complete your student exchange overseas program. The best way to improve your English language during a student exchange program is with a cultural immersion program in the UK. Read more about joining Lingoo.
How to book your UK student exchange
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.
If you’re aged 18-30, unmarried, and have no dependants, you can also travel to the UK as a Language Au Pair. It’s a new approach to working holidays in the UK.
Forget the traditional definition of ‘Au Pair’. You will have no domestic duties. You also don’t need a formal English teaching qualification and won’t be expected to plan and deliver formal lessons. All you need is an interest in people and a desire to help them improve their English language skills.
You can plan a working holiday or gap year of a lifetime as a Language Au Pair teaching conversational English.
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 by working as a Language Au Pair.
If you work as a Language Au Pair, your role is to help the family you are living with to learn your language. But there is no reason why you can’t also learn theirs during your ‘down time’.
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. Read more about becoming a language au pair during your gap year.