Help A Family In Spain Learn English

    Live like a local with a screened host family and receive free room and board.

    Tutor In Spain

    Overview

    Tutor English abroad in Spain and live as a local for 1 to 3 months when you help a family in Spain learn English. Don’t worry if you’ve never done this before!  Your new host family is more interested in learning conversational English than they are grammar.  You'll have so much fun living in Spain by simply speaking English the way you normally do at home. Also, you have a unique opportunity to learn or improve your Spanish! In a matter of hours, you're walking around your new community like a real Spanish citizen. It won’t take long for the locals to start recognizing you and for you to consider your host community your new, temporary home.  It’s real and authentic. Get to know the locals.  Wake up each day and feel a connection.

    Immersion And Sustainable Culture

    This is an immersion opportunity to learn Spanish and enjoy the Spanish culture and food for 1, 2 or 3 months. You'll live as a local with a carefully screened host family and you'll become a part of the community. This is not an "Airbnb" experience for a few days where you live locally but as a tourist. You're an invited guest for at least a month or longer.

    What really happens? Genuine engagement, not just commoditized “experiences.” You'll live as a local. You won't live locally as a tourist in an apartment.

    For up to 15 hours a week, you'll speak to the family in conversational English. In return, you'll receive free room (a private one for you) and board. Typically families are looking for you to speak English with them over a meal or for a certain amount of time during the day.

    Fee

    $1,129

    Visa

    You will enter Spain on a tourist visa. 

    Start Dates

    Flexible. Actual arrival date is coordinated between you and your host family. Positions available year round. (Starting in August or December is not usually available.)

    Eligibility

    • At a minimum, be 18 years of age. We also place a lot of mature travelers looking for a different way to travel and connect with new people and explore different cultures.
    • Be a native English speaker.
    • Hold a passport from the USA, UK, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand or Australia.

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    Costs

    $1,129

    The fee you pay to tutor in Spain goes to our 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity, The GeoVisions Foundation. Be sure to speak to your tax preparer to see if any of these fees can be deducted as a charitable donation. The fee partially covers the cost of providing accommodation, meals, insurance and pre-departure & in-country support while you're in Spain. 

    What We Include

    • Personalized placement with a carefully screened host family. In other words, a place to call home in Spain.  Our unique matching system ensures a great fit.
    • A comfortable private bedroom for the duration of the program.
    • Meals each day except when you’re not at the host home.
    • Local support in Spain.
    • Pre-departure materials.
    • Comprehensive medical insurance if you’re from the US.
    • Spanish language immersion through your host family.

    What's Not Included

    • Your flight to Spain.
    • Meals when you travel or go out on your own.
    • Spending money for personal expenses, when you travel or optional activities.

    FAQ

    Please call us on +1 (203) 453-5838 if you have questions.

    We are asked the same questions each day, so we hope this page of Frequently Asked Questions will be helpful to you. Anyone in our office can answer your questions anytime you call. We want you to made informed decisions and we will be happy to talk to you anytime.

    How does GeoVisions choose families in Spain?

    Host families contact us because they want to provide room and board to a native English speaker who will help them with their conversational English.  When there are children in the family, mostly they need help with their English homework, but many times the adults want to join in as well.

    Families are screened. They have to show a need and a desire to host an English tutor.  And they have to pass a background check, an interview by staff in Spain and agree to a home inspection and provide photos of the home (inside and out).  Tutors are promised their own private room but there are times a bathroom might be shared. Families provide meals except when the tutor is traveling.

    Does GeoVisions provide materials to help me be successful? How am I supported?

    Tutoring information is available on the GeoVisions mobile app.  We encourage tutors to also be creative and find tutoring techniques that they are comfortable using and the match well with the host family members that they are tutoring.

    Can I choose my location?

    For the most authentic experience living each day in Spain, you cannot choose your exact location. What you can do is tell us the area where you’d like to be and whether or not you’d like a large city, a small town or rural placement.  And we’ll try our best.  Remember … the host families choose us when they need a live-in tutor and so timing is everything.  There are many locations that you may not have considered prior to applying that are fantastic places in Italy.  (We can tell you about many tutors that have loved their locations!)

    What if I don’t like my placement when I arrive or I have host family issues? Can I move?

    Before you depart, we connect you via email, phone and Skype with your new host family. You’ll have all the details you want before you ever leave home.  GeoVisions spends a great deal of time on match-making. There needs to be a “connection” between you and your host family.

    After you arrive if you begin having issues with your host family, we have a way to start the process to fix things or, change your placement, if necessary. This is extremely rare, but we’ve done this long enough to know things can come up on all sides.

    Can I be placed with someone? I’d like to travel with a friend.

    Unfortunately, host families needing a tutor generally have the room for one extra person in the home. So we are unable to provide a homestay for anyone except the tutor. If you want to apply with someone else, they would be placed with another family. We would try hard to find a host family so you would be close to one another, but we could not guarantee that. If you’re set on traveling with someone, take a look at our other program types, because we do have those kinds of placements.  Give us a call and ask.

    Gallery

    Here are a handful of photos to give you a sense of this program.

    You can also find more photos, stories, and video through our Facebook Page, Instagram and YouTube channels and our Blog.

    As you view more photos and video, consider the program benefits. A second home with new friends, becoming more independent and confident, improving your Spanish since you're now living like a local and helping your host family realize their goals of speaking English. Add an international reference to your resume which helps with future job applications because of your experience tutoring English to a family in Spain and you're ahead of the game.

    What Our Tutors Say (Click to see all reviews on GoAbroad.com)

    9 Rating With 4 half stars T

    My host family were extremly welcoming and made me feel at ease straight away. They met me at the nearest train station and were very understanding. Also, they let me join in activities that they happened to be doing like swimming or going to the cinema.

    A Rewarding And Interesting Experience. Howard, July 24, 2018

    8 Rating With 4 Stars T

    The overall program gave me a very neat insight to Spanish culture, and also helped me learn to relate to different people whether it was teaching the kids English or teaching local friends games or other skills that I know. The family was welcoming, and encouraging my practice of the Spanish language. My goal is to become an educator and I think this trip has definitely helped me acquire useful skills for my future. However, as far as learning Spanish goes, I don't think this was the best program to learn Spanish. Although very enthusiastic, I found it very easy to neglect my Spanish textbook and studies. The main practice I was able to get, was with friends that I met in Spain, the locals. With them, I was able to practice and I was forced to communicate in Spanish. However, I was only with them on average of a couple of times a week, so my practice was limited. Due to schedules with the family, I was mostly around the kids with whom I had to speak English. So, when at my stay, I was mainly speaking English aside from the occasional small-talk with the parents or housekeeper. This experience definitely challenged me in a good way, and allowed me to see a lot of the Spanish culture and a lot of Madrid. As far as travel is concerned, my host family lived an hour and a half outside of Madrid via public transit and only 20 mins via car. I would definitely research public transportation prior to arriving, but I would also highly recommend this program if future plans involve teaching. It helped me with lesson planning, analyzing progress as well as struggles, and also with my patience. If the main objective is to learn Spanish, I recommend finding a class to take while there that way studying is mandatory. Befriending the locals definitely helps and I feel is the best for learning because you're forced to talk, which at first is frightening and very intimidating. My experience was phenomenal, most people are very patient and very welcoming. Spain is very rich in it's history and is a very beautiful country. Find a way there whether it's through this program or another!

    Experience With Spanish Culture And Educational System. Jason, September 24, 2018

    10 Rating With 5 Starts T

    The program was a huge success for me, the procedures to follow for signing up were easy. Each step of the application was straightforward, contact with the people at Geovisions throughout the application process, was really helpful. I felt I had a fantastic relationship with everybody I spoke to, the process was smooth and Geovisions soon found me a family. I would recommend this program to anybody, it is a fantastic, worthwhile experience for broadening your horizons, meeting amazing new people and experiencing a culture different to your own, it provides you with memories to treasure for a lifetime. I am grateful to Geovisions for making this program so accessible to people, with its affordability being immensely important.If you are thinking of travelling abroad, expanding your conceptual knowledge of the world, speaking a new language, making awesome new friends and feeling a part of a new community while providing the opportunity for others to learn your language. You really cannot go wrong with this program and I would urge you to sign up, it has changed my life with the experiences I have and the friends I have made, and I cannot wait to revisit in future. Thanks Geovisions!

    Tutor a Family in Spain. Jamie Copp, September 8, 2018

    9 Rating With 4 half stars T

    My goals for doing this program were to become a better English teacher and to get to know the city where am I staying. Since being on the program for a month, I definitely feel like I have accomplished my goal of feeling comfortable in my city.My goal with being a better English teacher has been narrowed down a little bit; in other words, it has gone from the general (wanting to be good) to the specific (help my family improve their English skills in tailored ways given their personal goals and feedback).The Tower of Hercules is the local UNESCO World Heritage site - a must-visit for anyone in Coruña or Galicia. Another highlight was traveling to Ponferrada, in the province of Leon, and visit the 12th-century Templar castle located there.I have been to the beach in Coruña many times but only once was the whole city gathered on it. La Noche de San Juan, a celebration of the summer solstice, took place on June 24th and I will never forget how the normally empty and quaint beach was filled with tens of thousands of people and dozens of bonfires. People came from all over to be a part of the festivities and I am so glad to have been here in Coruña to witness it and soak in the atmosphere of a celebration unlike any other.

    Feeling good about teaching my host family English. Jacob Zarate, August 28, 2018