We hope that your October is as sunny and filled with pleasure as ours (no really, the sun was shining today); here is what we have for you this month:

We have moved
Before and After video clips of Out There students
Did they really mean to say that?

Yes, we have moved again. This is because our partner school (and landlords!) in London, United International College, have moved to bigger and better premises and we have gone with them. However, we are still close to Oxford Circus and right in the middle of the West End. Our new address is:

Languages Out There c/o UIC
Language House
76-78 Mortimer Street
London, W1W 7SA
UK

Phone and fax stay the same for now. Heres a map:

Before and After - Over the summer we shot some video of clients during their placement interviews and before they followed their EOT course in London. We then we videoed them again during a similar interview, just before they left to go home. We call them our Before and After videos. Most students were on very short courses of between two to four weeks. Everyone who took part gave us written permission to use their clips and we hope to be able to put these and all of the others on the website soon. Thanks to everyone for playing along with us!

See if you can identify any improvement in the English of Jakob, Eri and Florent? Click on the links below.

Jakob , Czech Rep. 2 week course
Before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5P0aDWTOWs
After: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF1pkfvIyA

Eri, Japan. 4 week course
Before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syRPo3piBls
After: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNrUYkrehQk

Florent , France. 2 week course
Before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RNKBbG_IvM
After: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sytvOODa1zI

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

>> The wisdom of Beckham <<
David loses final grip on reality

We can't help but give another airing to
David Beckham's interview in the tabloids this
week. In this article, he hoped to convince
people that he was a normal, good guy who
>should still be playing for England. Really.

Beckham says that when the England manager
called to say he'd been dropped he phoned his
wife and then Tom Cruise. "He's a great guy
to be able to speak to because he is a
very positive-minded person."

"He talked about everything I had done in
the World Cup, about the goal I scored and
the goals I set up. He said I was a great player,
that I played for Real Madrid, I've got a
healthy family and three boys and a wife who
love me to bits. It does you good just to hear
somebody saying that sometimes."

Odds on Beckham moving to LA and becoming
a Scientologist after football: 1-100

Odds on Steve Mclaren wanting to pick
him for England after this: 100-1
Courtesy of Popbitch http://rd.bcentral.com/?ID=4587249&s=117342901

The Guardian and Languages Out There have created some great self-study Out There lesson plans and podcasts for free download:

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

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

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

Get Out There and learn

http://www.languagesoutthere.com/