30+ Years of Homestay Tutoring Excellence!

Welcome to the renowned Eurolingua Institute Language Homestay Immersion programmes, offering immersive learning in countries where your target language is spoken natively. As we celebrated our 30th anniversary in 2023, we continue to provide top-tier language immersion experiences throughout Europe.

Our in-country Language Homestay Immersion Programmes are available for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

If you are a dedicated language learner seeking personalised, one-to-one immersion with our experienced language homestay tutors, this programme is perfect for you — offering total linguistic and cultural immersion, 24/7.

Below are the locations where our tutors live, ready to open their homes and share the wonders of their language and culture with you.

What Do Eurolingua Language Homestay Immersion Programmes Offer?

Since their launch in 1993, Eurolingua Language Homestay Immersion Programmes have been a tremendous success, providing students with an unparalleled learning experience.

What makes these programmes so effective? They immerse you in the language, culture, and social fabric of the country where your target language is spoken. You live as a guest in the family home of a fully-qualified and experienced native-speaking language tutor, benefiting from the warmth and comfort of a professional family environment, meeting family and friends and members members of the broader community. This setting allows you to practice your language skills daily while experiencing the local culture first-hand.

Each programme offers professional, structured, and personalized instruction, ensuring you receive one-on-one attention through private language tutoring. The lessons are tailored to your level and learning pace, making it ideal for learners at all stages, from beginners to advanced speakers. Your learning doesn’t stop there!! Through continuous interaction with your tutor, family members, friends and neighbours, you will practice your language skills in real-life scenarios, solidifying your fluency in ways that traditional classroom learning simply can’t offer.

With the Eurolingua Language Homestay Immersion Programme, you can choose to learn English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish, all while enjoying an authentic ‘study abroad’ experience. Not only will you improve your language skills, but you’ll also gain a deeper understanding of the cultural and social nuances that come with speaking like a native.

Whether you are looking to improve for personal reasons, academic goals, or professional growth, these immersion programmes provide the ideal environment for mastering a new language in a natural, authentic and supportive setting.

What a Eurolingua Language Homestay Immersion programme offers:

  • Total linguistic, cultural and social immersion
  • Available any time of the year
  • Students of any age (16-75+ years old), and any level beginner to advanced
  • Learn with an experienced and qualified native speaker and his/her family
  • Quality homestay accommodation in your tutor’s own private residence
  • Individual tuition, 15, 20, 25 or 30 hours per week, structured and planned to fit your preferred schedule (mornings, afternoons, early evenings, weekends, etc)
  • Learn at your own pace, covering subjects and topics which are of interest to you
  • Practice through informal conversation with your host family, friends, neighbours, and professional colleagues etc.
  • Visit the local community (shopping, post office, bank, bakery, museums, exhibitions, art galleries etc.)
  • Cultural activities such as theatre, cinema, sports events, fiestas, or parades
  • Social activities with your tutor and family, neighbours, friends, and professional colleagues
  • Touristic activities such as visiting castles, ruins, lakes, coastline, rivers etc. (client pays their own entrance fees where applicable).

How to sign up to a Homestay course

Signing up is easy!

  1. Choose the language you want to of speak fluently
  2. Choose the country you want to visit
  3. Decide who you are going to bring with you, if anyone: your partner, son/daughter, friend, fellow student, etc. All two-for-one homestays benefit from a 50% discount!
  4. Choose how long you want to go: programmes available for 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks, at any time of year.
  5. Choose which tutors you’d like to stay with. Fill in your no obligation Admission Enquiry Form and we’ll be in touch!