Christian Labie is 56 and comes from Lyon in France. He is the manager of an environmental and energy agency, and has studied English in the UK several times, most recently at English Language in the Lakes (Nab Cottage) in the Lake District.

English UK has upgraded the students' pages on its website today. The pages can now be viewed in English and ten additional languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish!

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Thank you to all our partners for nominating us as LTM Stars! English UK has been nominated for the Star School Association Award again in 2009. Winners will be announced on Saturday 5 September at the Alphe UK Dinner taking place at the London Hilton on Park Lane.

The faces of English students from 50 countries are the subject of a special project. Oktay Çolak, 39, is a photography lecturer at Marmara University in Turkey. He got the idea for his project while studying English at English UK member Oxford House College in London.