Immerse Yourself in Local Culture and Get to Experience Traditional Living in a Homestay.
Staying with a host family in a homestay, offers you an incredible opportunity to experience how locals live. When you travel to any place in the world as a tourist or student, you often don’t get to discover what a country is really all about. Plus, you definitely don’t get to know what real life is like for a local. A homestay experience means you get to learn about local life.
Enjoy Authentic Local Living
Living in a homestay with a local family, means you’ll get to partake in family routines, customs,
celebrations and meal times. This will vary from culture to culture but these are things you would never get to know about unless you live with a host family.. Homestays will often be in the countryside or in a local town, allowing you to observe traditional local living.
Experience Local Traditions and Customs
A homestay in Japan host will love having you join in their family traditions.. When staying with your host, you can join in making and serving foods, talking with the young members of the family and you may even get asked to join the family out at local events
Learn More of the Local Language
If you’re staying in a particular country and want to learn the local language, you’ll definitely pick up the lingo faster if you can speak it daily with a host family. You can ask your homestay hosts to teach you new words each day and ask them to speak to you only in their language if you’re a little more advanced. If you’re a student wishing to stay long term to study or a traveler passing through, there’s no better way to learn more of the local language.
Feel Safe and Looked After Living with a Local Family
Staying with a local family will give you peace of mind you can talk to them and ask how to stay safe in their country. They’ll love to advise you about their country and want to do everything they can to make your stay with them as comfortable as possible. A homestay will be more than just accommodation; it really will be a home away from home.