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What is Lingoo?

Language exchange holidays and immersion homestays for children, teenagers, adults and families organised directly between members

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What is Lingoo?

Some things just can’t be learned in a classroom. Lingoo offers authentic language holidays for children, teenagers, family groups and adults of all ages through language exchanges, homestays and one-to-one language tutors. By staying with a friendly host family or language teacher, you, your child or small family group, can eat sleep and breathe a new language and culture. Whether preparing for an exam or feeding a personal passion for languages, complete immersion offers access to an intensive learning experience like no other.

We provide three great ways to learn a foreign language:

  • Language exchange – two families offer hospitality to each other; either as a family group, just the children or adults; this language swap is a totally modern approach to the traditional French, Spanish or German exchange.
  • Live and learn with your teacher – you, your child or small family group, stay in the home of a teacher to learn a language formally.
  • Stay with a host family – you, your child or small family group, stay with a host family for an authentic language immersion holiday.

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Joining Lingoo allows you to book as many homestays for you, your child or your family as you like in the following 12 months.

Children, teenagers, adults or family groups
Why not become a Host Family or Teacher on Lingoo?

Hosting foreign students in your home as a family is a fun way to offer paid stays and earn extra income. As a hosting family, just like a traditional French exchange or Spanish exchange, you provide accommodation and meals. But to make it even more fun, Lingoo encourages the student to match their interests with yours as the family hosting students. So you can offer opportunities to share your interests with your guests during each stay. Read more...

If you are qualified to teach a language as a foreign language, you can offer complete immersion to your students, alongside one-to-one tuition, from the comfort of your own home. Home language tuition is a growth area. The unrivalled opportunity for language practice offered by combining staying in a teacher’s home with formal lessons allows students to reach their goals – whether personal, professional or to pass exams – and faster than in a traditional classroom. Read more..

Watch our video presentation or download a brochure to read later.

How Lingoo works
1
Search
Look through our current language exchange or homestay profiles. Click on the search bar now (you don’t need to be a member).
2
Register
Your subscription provides each Member access to unlimited language trips for a 12-month period.
3
Connect
Match your interests and read evaluations from previous visitors. Start getting to know your partner Member using the secure Lingoo messaging system before making a booking
4
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 homestay.
What is Lingoo's Story?

Lingoo was launched by a husband and wife team in 2008 and is now the world’s biggest language exchange and homestay club. Our mission is to help language learners connect with learning opportunities within this community, give people the power to decide how they would like to learn and practice a language and help language teachers and hosts deliver authentic language learning experiences.

We’re proud of the many thousands of evaluations published on our site that demonstrate the quality of learning experience our members deliver every day.

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