Sorry we have been so quiet for so long. We have been on holiday and then felt a bit ‘off colour' so thought we'd take a rest and keep all of our interesting news to ourselves.

Just joking, life at Out There Towers has been extremely busy and this is why:

Free Do-It-Yourself German and Spanish Out There podcast lessons with The Guardian

New location and language - Czech Out There
New website with sound and fun things

Press - big article in The Independent newspaper travel section
New company image

New director
New feature - ‘Did they mean to say that?'

We have teamed up with The Guardian newspaper and their great website (biggest newspaper website in the world with 12m visits per month) to create Do-It-Yourself Out There. Free to download beginners Spanish and German (especially for the World Cup) lesson plans in pdf with podcasts for your ipod or mp3 player...these have recordings of real people (yes, people like you!) going out there to speak to locals and use the language they learnt from the lesson plan. So, when you got to Spain and Germany you can download and then get Out There and learn whilst at the same time spreading a little happiness in the world. There will be more soon in other languages.
We have teamed up with The Guardian newspaper and their great website (biggest newspaper website in the world with 12m visits per month) to create Do-It-Yourself Out There. Free to download beginners Spanish and German (especially for the World Cup) lesson plans in pdf with podcasts for your ipod or mp3 player...these have recordings of real people (yes, people like you!) going out there to speak to locals and use the language they learnt from the lesson plan. So, when you got to Spain and Germany you can download and then get Out There and learn whilst at the same time spreading a little happiness in the world. There will be more soon in other languages.

http://travel.guardian.co.uk/audio/languages

Czech Out There in Prague...Akcent IH Prague are going to teach Czech Out There very soon, yes, you read that correctly, Czech Out There. Our agent in the Czech Republic, GTS International, suggested we might like to ‘get it on' and teach some school groups Czech with the IH crew.

http://www.languagesoutthere.com//prague-czech-out-there.html

The link above will take you to our new website...where all current Out There locations are fully loaded. Do pause on the fantastic montage on the home page and click your mouse, but make sure you have your sound on! The site will be translated into other languages in the next two months. Thanks Kris for tolerating the hours of pain building the website!

http://www.languagesoutthere.com

We got some great press for Spanish Out There with a really big article in The Independent newspaper's travel section, you can read it here:

http://travel.independent.co.uk/europe/article605829.ece

Yes, we have re-branded and have got a new image that we hope you like. We wanted to try and make the difference between an Out There course and a conventional course much more obvious, and would like to say thanks to Fraser and Sinead for their ideas, inspiration, words and images, we really love them and have had great feedback so far.

For those in the global language travel industry who haven't read the trade press, I'd like to welcome Tony Evans as a director of Languages Out There. Tony has been in this business for years and has finally seen the error of his ways and finally joined a company actually going somewhere!

‘Did they really mean to say that?' - a new feature were we find and display people having communication problems.

"There's no way to be closer to my mother except to live inside her, and that I've done that already." - Steven Spielberg. Courtesy of Popbitch http://www.popbitch.com

Get Out There...and learn