Kenilworth Language Institute

Ireland has always been famed for its hospitality and staying with a host family is one of the best ways to experience this first-hand. Your choice of accommodation is a very important aspect of the time you spend studying English in Ireland.

 

Students often benefit hugely from staying with an Irish family, which gives the possibility to converse and encounter new cultural experiences in a natural and warm environment. You will be welcomed into someone’s home and cared for as one of the family.  You will be exposed to language and culture in a variety of ways; for example - through conversation, television, radio, newspapers and magazines.

 

Many students find staying with an Irish family a very rewarding experience as it offers a unique insight into Irish culture and provides the perfect opportunity to improve their English. Staying with a Host Family is excellent for developing your communication skills. You have the perfect opportunity, every day, to use English in real, natural situations outside the classroom.

 

All of our families are carefully selected and live on or near a direct bus route to Kenilworth Square or our Summer School centre. Host families provide practical assistance when needed whilst at the same time providing privacy and security. The Accommodation Officer visits and checks all the host families and she speaks to families regularly by phone throughout the student’s stay. Host Family Accommodation is available all year round.

 

 

 

 

 

Irish Food and Houses

Host families provide breakfast and an evening meal from Monday to Friday and breakfast, lunch and evening meal at weekends.  Irish breakfast nowadays is usually a light meal – fruit juice, cereal, toast and tea or coffee. A full Irish Breakfast is usually only had on special occasions. Lunch on working days is generally a snack or sandwich. The main meal (usually meat or fish served with vegetables followed by dessert) is eaten at about 6 or 7 pm.

 

We do our best to match you with a suitable family so iwe need to know if you have any special food requirements - for example if you are a vegetarian or cannot eat certain food for religious reasons. It is also very important that you tell us about any allergies you have.

 

Irish families generally live in houses with gardens away from the centre of Dublin City. Host families provide a room with a study desk and laundry facilities. Only one student of each nationality is placed in a family unless students request an alternative arrangement or when they come as part of a group.

Some long-term students prefer to move out and live on their own at certain point. Kenilworth can offer advice on where best to search for accommodation and what areas are most safe and practical to live in.

 

 

Kenilworth Language Institute

4 Kenilworth Square, Dublin 6, Ireland.

Tel: +353 1 497 1499  Fax: +353 1 497 1499
E-mail: info@kenilworthinstitute.ie