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What to expect from your stay

All Ages
Young Children
Adolescents
Who are our teachers?
How Do We Choose The Right Teacher For Each Student?
Who Monitors The Student's Progress?
Where Are The Courses?

All Ages
Our students come from all age groups and all possible backgrounds, from countries throughout the world.
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Young Children
We have children as young as 9 years old who are quite happy to leave home and study with a teacher, yet sometimes you can have a 17 year old who cries at first, because of homesickness. The suitability of a course for young children depends far more on the character of the child than it does on the age. Parents are usually reassured by the fact that all our teachers are qualified and, therefore, experienced in caring for children and supervising them. A family who merely lets rooms for money in no way feels the same duty of care as a qualified teacher who is a professional not only in imparting knowledge, but also caring for younger students.

We also offer Closer Supervision (Cocooning) for under 18s. The Standard Course does not oblige the teacher or member of the family to spend all their time with the student, but the teacher does of course spend a reasonable amount of time with the student, as they would with any friend who came to stay. On the other hand, this closer supervision option guarantees that the teacher or an adult member of the family is around at all times, but does not guarantee specific activities.
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Adolescents
Many of our students are at the point of leaving school or are already attending university and, although at 18 they are technically adults, parents still like a watchful eye kept on them. Our teachers are the most suitable people to do this. They can, for example, warn students to avoid certain areas in big towns and can protect the younger students from forming friendships and associations with undesirable friends. This sort of protection even for young adults can only be given properly by true professionals such as our host teachers.
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Mature Students
There are no upper age limits and we have had students aged 80 years or more. The key for us is to find retired teachers who prefer to host the more mature student with whom they have more in common. Business and professional people often find our course most useful when visiting a foreign country - for business or for a professional conference, as they find that a couple of weeks spent learning the language of the country they are visiting repays itself 100-fold by impressing the foreign business partners or congress delegates with a working knowledge of what is often an obscure language.
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Who are our teachers?
Our teachers broadly fall into three categories:

1. Working teachers who already have a full-time job with a state or private school. These teachers only work for us during their vacation time in the summer, at Easter or even at Christmas.

2. Retired teachers usually do not want to work full time, but are very pleased to host mature students 4 or 5 times a year. This enables them to meet interesting people from other countries and also to supplement their income without leaving their homes.

3. Lady teachers with children of their own often give up their full time teaching jobs to look after their own children. These ladies are delighted to have the opportunity to supplement their income by entertaining an extra child whom they can teach without leaving their own house.

4. Students receive details of the teacher's qualifications and other family details before their stay.

How Do We Choose The Right Teacher For Each Student?
We take the greatest care to learn as much as possible about our students and our host families so that we can match students with teachers of similar backgrounds and very often similar interests such as golf, tennis, classical music or other hobbies. Please try to enrol at least one month in advance so that we can be sure of selecting exactly the right family for you.
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Who Monitors The Student's Progress?
In each area we have Local Organisers who contact the student shortly after arrival to see that they are happy. On very rare occasions there can be a clash of personalities. When the Local organiser telephones or visits the most important question that is asked by the Local Organiser to the student is 'Are you happy with your family?' or 'Do you want a change of family?'. The student only has to answer 'Yes' or 'No' and does not have to give any embarrassing reasons for wishing to change. All teachers know that on very rare occasions the chemistry is just not right and that in such cases the family will be changed with no hard feelings on either side. Changes can also be made in the case of illness or accident and our Local Organisers all have years of experience in dealing with these situations.
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Where Are The Courses?
Home Language International is truly a worldwide organisation. For a list of countries, areas and languages available click here!
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	What to expect from your stay All Ages Young Children Adolescents Who are our teachers? How Do We Choose The Right Teacher For Each Student? Who Monitors The Student's Progress? Where Are The Courses? All Ages Our students come from all age groups and all possible backgrounds, from countries throughout the world. Back To Top Young Children We have children as young as 9 years old who are quite happy to leave home and study with a teacher, yet sometimes you can have a 17 year old who cries at first, because of homesickness. The suitability of a course for young children depends far more on the character of the child than it does on the age. Parents are usually reassured by the fact that all our teachers are qualified and, therefore, experienced in caring for children and supervising them. A family who merely lets rooms for money in no way feels the same duty of care as a qualified teacher who is a professional not only in imparting knowledge, but also caring for younger students. We also offer Closer Supervision (Cocooning) for under 18s. The Standard Course does not oblige the teacher or member of the family to spend all their time with the student, but the teacher does of course spend a reasonable amount of time with the student, as they would with any friend who came to stay. On the other hand, this closer supervision option guarantees that the teacher or an adult member of the family is around at all times, but does not guarantee specific activities. Back To Top Adolescents Many of our students are at the point of leaving school or are already attending university and, although at 18 they are technically adults, parents still like a watchful eye kept on them. Our teachers are the most suitable people to do this. They can, for example, warn students to avoid certain areas in big towns and can protect the younger students from forming friendships and associations with undesirable friends. This sort of protection even for young adults can only be given properly by true professionals such as our host teachers. Back To Top Mature Students There are no upper age limits and we have had students aged 80 years or more. The key for us is to find retired teachers who prefer to host the more mature student with whom they have more in common. Business and professional people often find our course most useful when visiting a foreign country - for business or for a professional conference, as they find that a couple of weeks spent learning the language of the country they are visiting repays itself 100-fold by impressing the foreign business partners or congress delegates with a working knowledge of what is often an obscure language. Back To Top Who are our teachers? Our teachers broadly fall into three categories: 1. Working teachers who already have a full-time job with a state or private school. These teachers only work for us during their vacation time in the summer, at Easter or even at Christmas. 2. Retired teachers usually do not want to work full time, but are very pleased to host mature students 4 or 5 times a year. This enables them to meet interesting people from other countries and also to supplement their income without leaving their homes. 3. Lady teachers with children of their own often give up their full time teaching jobs to look after their own children. These ladies are delighted to have the opportunity to supplement their income by entertaining an extra child whom they can teach without leaving their own house. 4. Students receive details of the teacher's qualifications and other family details before their stay. Back To Top How Do We Choose The Right Teacher For Each Student? We take the greatest care to learn as much as possible about our students and our host families so that we can match students with teachers of similar backgrounds and very often similar interests such as golf, tennis, classical music or other hobbies. Please try to enrol at least one month in advance so that we can be sure of selecting exactly the right family for you. Back To Top Who Monitors The Student's Progress? In each area we have Local Organisers who contact the student shortly after arrival to see that they are happy. On very rare occasions there can be a clash of personalities. When the Local organiser telephones or visits the most important question that is asked by the Local Organiser to the student is 'Are you happy with your family?' or 'Do you want a change of family?'. The student only has to answer 'Yes' or 'No' and does not have to give any embarrassing reasons for wishing to change. All teachers know that on very rare occasions the chemistry is just not right and that in such cases the family will be changed with no hard feelings on either side. Changes can also be made in the case of illness or accident and our Local Organisers all have years of experience in dealing with these situations. Back To Top Where Are The Courses? Home Language International is truly a worldwide organisation. For a list of countries, areas and languages available click here! Back To Top SAVE TIME WITH OUR QUICKSTART PRICE CALCULATOR
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