Home Stay

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Family Homestay in Costa Rica near Veritas University. This is one of the families that IGE uses in Costa Rica for the study abroad program.

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Some are making twitter, some are playing PS3 …

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Homestay Family

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I’m writing a letter to my homestay family from when I visited Japan.
Unfortunately my Japanese is poor.
Could someone please help?
I would also like to say:
"Sorry I haven’t sent a letter sooner, work has been really busy!"

thankyou

"Sorry if my Japanese is poor"　is like;

"Watashi no nihongo ga amari umaku arimasen ga yurushite kudasai."
(私 (watashi) の日本語 (nihongo) があまり上手 (uma) くありませんが許(yuru) して下 (kuda) さい.)
"Watashi no nihongo ga wakarinikui kamo shiremasen ga yurushite kudasai."
(私の日本語が分かりにくいかもしれませんが許して下さい)

"Sorry I haven’t sent a letter sooner, work has been really busy!” is like;

"Gomennasai, shigoto ga isogashiku te henji ga sugu ni kakenakattan desu!"
(ごめんなさい, 仕事 (shigoto) が忙 (isoga) しくて返事 (henji) がすぐに書 (ka) けなかったんです!)

Hope this helps!

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Hi everybody,

I’m looking for a great, safe, clean and short-term (for about two months) opportunity to have a homestay in Beijing. There are too many organisations in internet, and it is not possible to decide which is the best. I’m not sure but maybe a private family to live with would be the easiest solution. (Probably you have a good experience, so that you can recommend me a good one.) My goal ist to improve my chinese language skills there.

Thank you for your help in advance,

Anthesa

you can try to meet someone on-line, at a place like facebook.com, there are tons of Chinese people using facebook, or a website like that where you can meet some people that could help you out

Is there related organisation or agent responsible for homestay in malaysia ? It is better to allow to stay over 6 monthes. I am planning to take some English programmes in Subang or KL and prefer to stay in English-speaking homestay family.
Does any US, UK, AU, or NZ immigrants family in Malaysia offer homestay service ?
If so, how to contact with them ?
I am a Malaysian have Malaysian passport.
however, I have stayed overseas for a long period of time, so I am seeking to experient different race’s family.
(I have no family in Malaysia so far)

There is some requirement for homestay program in Malaysia, unless you want to get a visit visa. Below are the link for homestay. Hope you can enjoy it

My loved homestay Family

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I’ve been reading up on sites for homestay’s in Japan and I wanted to know what anyone thought about them from a more educated about the subject point of view, especially if you’ve experienced or know someone who has experienced staying in one.

Does it seem like a safe idea?
Does it seem like it’s worth the cost? (on average I seen about 15000 – 25000 yen a week and I use the basic take off 2 zero’s method for converting to USD’s even though I know it would still be a little less)
Sites say that it’s a better way to experience the culture and learn about it, is that true?

Those are my basic questions…I AM a student BTW but if I were to do this it would be through a homestay website and not my school.

The idea is attractive to me because it looks more and more like I’ll be visiting Japan on my own and this seems like a less lonely and confusing way to go about Tokyo, especially if my homestay family has someone my age living there to show me around.
Sorry, the way I put it sounded like I expeted them to be a guide or something. I just meant with getting directions and what not. I’d have somewhere to go with a reliable source with at least people I’m familiar with as to how to get around.

I highly recommend it! I did a homestay when I spent a semester in Japan, although it was organized by my university and not by a commercial website. My host family was rather busy so I didn`t spend much time actually going out and doing things with them, but simply having a house full of people to talk to and ask questions of really helped me make sense of all the unfamiliar things that piqued my curiosity. And just living with ordinary people and seeing their daily lives really helped me gain a better understanding of Japanese culture.

The prices you listed seem quite reasonable, much cheaper than a hotel or renting an apartment. If you`re worried about safety (which I wouldn`t be, since Japan is a very safe country overall and most people who would volunteer to host are quite kind) see if the homestay organization can give you contact information for people who have used their services. Or find someone who has done a homestay and then ask them what site they used and how they felt about it. A former customer can best tell you whether any given company is reliable.

And if you do get there and find you have problems with your homestay, well, no one`s making you stay there. You can pack up and find a new place at any time.