Family Accommodation

Fully immerse yourself in Spanish to get the most from your experience in Peru

Without a doubt, learning a language abroad with an immersion program is a lot more effective than taking classes in your home country.

Our language programs and time spent in a clinical environment each day are important parts of developing Spanish skills here. However, another important part of this language learning process is to live Spanish by staying in family accommodation.

Partners or Family Members

We welcome partners or a family member

Our Families

We appreciate that coming to South America and living with a family can be a daunting prospect, especially if you have limited Spanish. For this reason we take a lot of care to only work with the right families, who understand this and provide quality accommodation.

We have worked with a select group of families for several years. The families are all professional households located in middle class areas of the city, with comfortable homes. Typically adult family members include engineers, doctors and college faculty.

Family accommodation households are warm and welcoming, and understand that different students have different needs. Perhaps you have a vegetarian diet or just the need for patient communication in Spanish. In each household at least one family member has at least basic level English.

You will have your own room and the homes all have WiFi and cable TV, etc.

Other students

In each household there is normally between one and four program participants. You can choose to be in a home stay alone or with other participants.

Great locations

In Trujillo all the families are located within a 10 minute walk of our center.

In Arequipa accommodation is at hospital Tony Molleapaza Rojas which offers comfortable shared or private rooms with wifi and meals provided by the staff canteen.

Please take a look at our testimonials where many past participants have written of their home stay experience as well as other aspects of the programs.

Typical day

A typical day immersed in Spanish

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Max

I elected to live in a home stay with a Peruvian family, which was also really helpful for improving my conversational Spanish. My Peruvian parents were tremendously warm and hospitable, and since their children were around my age, the entire household embraced me as a member of the family. There are other options available in terms of living arrangements, but I would strongly recommend going with the home stay option.

Django

I definitely recommend staying with a host family. My host mother, Ana, was one of the kindest warmest people i have ever met. Waking up to have breakfast with her was one of the highlights of my day, an excellent way to learn about Peruvian culture and she taught me so much Spanish. I felt at home, safe and excited about each meal and each day.

Kelly

The last and best component of my life in Trujillo was my awesome host family. My host mother, Ana, cooked the most delicious foods and introduced me to an abundance of Peruvian favorites while also asking me what foods I would like. The family truly brought me in as one of their own and even invited me to their grandson’s baptism at the local church. I truly felt like a member of their family.

Jennifer

My host family was the greatest, I was only in Peru for four weeks and I was so sad to leave them. Betty and Antonio truly made me feel like a part of the family. Their son, Sergio, came to visit from Lima one weekend and took us all around Trujillo. Betty took time with us each morning at breakfast to teach us new vocabulary words and Antonio spent many afternoons discussing Peruvian politics, social classes, and other big issues with us in the garden.