Jonathan Neal is a licensed educator in the U.S., born and raised in Southern California. He is a certified teacher of English as a foreign language, and has many years of experience as an elementary school teacher, where he was evaluated as a highly effective teacher. He is also an experienced online teacher of English to students in Japan, Korea, and the United States. Jonathan received degrees in business economics and political science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Additionally, Jonathan has many years of professional experience as a communications director and speechwriter, through which he has helped lots of people improve their English-language public speaking skills, and he also served as a newspaper editor. So from Jonathan you will be learning English from a communications and educational professional who has wide-ranging experience in helping others become the best English speaker that they can be.