ADVANTAGES:
- Saving costs
One of the attractive elements of living in homestay is saving cost. Subject to agreement mutual which you can select the number you want to use with their meal, and the experience is more common meals, the greater the savings.
- Learn deep local culture and have a great experience
Living in homestay will bring you a truly genuine experience. The host family will cook, invite you to participate in important events ( feasts, birthdays, weddings, weekend...) and take you to interesting places. In particular, the host family will bring you useful advice to help you more quickly integrate into a new environment.
- To develop language skills quickly
If you share a house with friends abroad, you may use English or a common international language that, instead of using local languages. Meanwhile, if you living in homestay with native speakers, you will be forced to communicate in their language, this will help you develop the most natural way. Therefore, you will practice the language proficiency more quickly.
- Friendliness as your second home
One of the biggest problems when studying abroad are faced with living away from home. So, living with a host family will give you a warm family atmosphere and the feeling of being interested in every day. For example, host family might worry when you go out of the house too late or when you are sick.
DISAVANTAGES:
- Compliance with the provisions of the homestay family
Each family will have different rules that you must follow, such a family will stipulated hour "curfew" they want you to be at home or prescribed some own rules during and immediately both having a few unspoken rules, but only when you have to live with them, you know how. Your experience is to observe everything, try not to ignore the rules set by the family they always adhere to.
- Lack of freedom
While living with a host family, you probably will not be free when you rent your home to stay. Particularly having to "report" to the home of the late or overnight out of, or restrict invite friends for parties, will also probably make you feel a bit uncomfortable. Tips for you in this case is to try to see host family as second homes and comply with the principles are defined by host family.
