Languagelab is opening English City to the public for free !

1. FREE ENGLISH LESSONS We are holding lots of fun and interesting English classes for you to attend for FREE. You can explore English City, meet new friends and improve your speaking,listening, reading and writing FREE!

2. ONE MONTHS FREE SUBSCRIPTION And if you buy a subscription on New Years Eve or New Years Day you will get the 2nd month free! So pay for January and get February free.

Included in a one month subscription you get:* Classes with native speaker teachers.
*24/7 Access to our virtual City.
*Games and online activities to help you to improve your English. *Students from all over the world to practice with.

3. COMPETITIONS Languagelab will also be holding COMPETITIONS at the party, where you can win FREE subscriptions worth over $100. We have lots of other OFFERS and give a ways too! You will have to come in-world and see for yourself. So don’t miss out and start 2009 with a Languagelab bang! Click here to visit English City.

A full programme of events will be available in the welcome area and on the website but I will give you an idea of what will be happening, click on the link to go to the event.

2:00am PDT: The Party

begins with New Year at Christmas Island.

3:00am PDT: See in the New Year New

Zealand ! DJ and fireworks at the Manor in English City.

4:00am PDT: Darts quiz at the pub, the Edgware Arms - see in the New Year British style.

5:00am PDT: Languagelab’s Lowri Mills sees the New Year in Sydney! First prize of the night is up for grabs!

6:00am PDT: Pogo stick races and 250 Linden prize to the winner Vladivostock New Year !

7:00am PDT: Celebrate, watch and vote with the Coolest Quick Build Contest - 250L prize to the winner.

8:00am PDT: Think you are funny? Like comedy? Come, listen, participate and vote at the Funniest Avatar Joke Contest – 250L to the Winner at the Theatre in Arts.

9:00am PDT: Jessie brings in an Indonesian New Year with another large prize drawing come and join us.

10:00am PDT: Sailboat races at Hotel Pier – 250L to the Winner ! The New Year arrives at Dhaka!

11:00am PDT: Practice your best moves ice skating at the Home Sim. Enjoy some hot cocoa or get involved with a snow ball fight.

12:00pm PDT: Darts quiz at the pub, the Edgware Arms - see in the New Year British style.

13:00pm PDT: Funniest Avatar Joke Contest – 250L to the Winner at the

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14:00pm PDT: What kind of fish are in the sea? Come find out at the

languagelab.com Fishing

Contest -250L to the Winner, happy New Year Athens and Cairo.

15:00pm PDT: Sailboat races at Hotel

Pier – 250L to the Winner ! The New Year arrives at Dhaka!

16:00pm PDT: London celebrates New

Years Eve ! Lowri starts giving away major prizes while the

London Home Office is out in London celebrating….

17:00pm PDT: While the New Year crosses the Atlantic, we will enjoy hot cocoa,

skating and perhaps a snowball fight at the

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18:00pm PDT: Enjoy the New Year all over the world with dancing, singing and fireworks ! Dart contest too at the Edgware Arms

19:00pm PDT: Party at Ciudad Bonita!!!! Fun and Spanish dancing at languagelab.com’s beautiful Spanish City and all of it’s charm.

20:00pm PDT: Enjoy the New Year with the World as Languagelab.com opens all 18 sims to the public to celebrate our global New Year – Fireworks and fun, happy New Year to you !

21:00pm PDT: Pogo you way into 2009. Participate, watch and win the languagelab.com – Pogo Stick Races 250L to the Winner.

22:00pm PDT: Ami Champion is celebrating a Texas New Year with a large prize and Sailboat races at Hotel Pier – 250L to the Winner

23:00pm PDT: Bring in the New Year with laughter with the Funniest Avatar – Joke Contest – 250L to the Winner

00:00pm PDT: Celebrate the Second Life New Years with fireworks, crackers, the official dropping of the Ball! The Final Party of the Night! The biggest and best in SL.

So as we say good bye to 2008 and hello to 2009 we will have a very full programme of events at English City – 24 hours of fun and games and a special event for each hour – so to celebrate the New Year in every country ! Our students are from over 50 countries so there are lots of traditions and celebrations to take part in and also there are some special offers and prizes to be won for some lucky students ! Every hour there will be a prize given away one for each country.

Christmas is an annual holiday celebrated on 24th-25th December. Traditionally it is  Christian festival held to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ who was born in Bethlehem.

Customs vary from country to country but the celebration usually centres around spending time with family and friends and eating a lot of food, and perhaps going to a Church service on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Houses are decorated with a Christmas tree and lights and presents are placed under the tree.

In most European countries Christmas Eve is celebrated on the 24th but in the UK and USA it is celebrated on Christmas Day, with turkey being the traditional Christmas Dinner.

However, each country has different traditional food and drink, in the Czech Reupblic they eat carp,  a freshwater fish and in Poland there are 12 different courses to eat on Christmas Eve !

Christmas began as a Christian festival but is also celebrated by many non-Christians as a secular, cultural festival. The holiday is celebrated all over the world.

Go and join the Christmas Party on Wednesday 25th December at English City.
Times are:
7am-9am      PDT  (3pm-5pm UK)  With Kent
9am – 10am  PDT  (5pm-6pm UK)  With Phillip
10am-12pm  PDT  (6pm-8pm UK)  With Pebbles
Click here to check schedule.

You can pick up your present, talk to your friends and have a happy and fun experience while practicing new vocabulary and learning new Christmas words.

See you there !

Jessie Teacher

Opening party of Ciudad Bonita

Head Teacher and Spanish Teacher Daf Smirnov opened Ciudad Bonita last night with a tapas and drinks party and a tour of the city. Students and teachers could meet and talk about the new beginners Spanish course starting soon.  The teachers were from all over the Spanish speaking world; Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela and Spain and all were enthusiastic to begin teaching at Ciudad Bonita.

The Languagelab Teaching Team worked closely with builders Xandi Mars and Random Cole to provide this great city for Languagelab students. The finished city and course were the result of a successful Beta programme earlier in 2008 and research into how best to teach beginners Spanish in virtual worlds.  Ciudad Bonita will be open to the public until the start of classes so you are all welcome to walk around the city, have a drink at the bar and buy some delicious food from the market!

Enjoying tapas and sangria at the Ciudad Bonita Party

Head Teacher (Paul Sweeney) said, “Congratulations to all involved, Ciudad Bonita looks wonderful and I am sure that students will feel comfortable and enjoy their learning experience in a supported and stimulating environment.”

The next open day is

Saturday 15th November UK 6 – 9pm / Los Angeles 10am – 1pm

Location : Ciudad Bonita

Here is a link to another blog post from one of the attendees of our Open Day