Perfectly Spoken Online English Courses

Passion for Teaching English

At Perfectly Spoken we understand the power of English to transform the lives of people around the world

Perfectly Spoken is a UK company based in Cambridgeshire, England

OUR VISION

To empower anyone, anywhere, to achieve their English language learning goals with effective, personalised learning delivered by combining the best in expert teacher led-instruction and supported by harnessing the power of the latest in technology and advances in AI.

OUR MISSION

To help all students across the globe learn English with affordable, quality online English language training while offering special support for disadvantaged students.

To achieve that goal, everything we do is driven by a combination of two critical elements:

  • We put expert English language teachers at the heart of the learning experience. This means that all our teachers are University graduates, have the highest qualifications to teach English as a foreign language and have a minimum of 10 years of practical English teaching experience.
  • We continually invest in the latest technology to provide the best online experience possible for our students

Meet our Team

David de Jager

David is our Managing Director. He founded Perfectly Spoken in 2014 with a vision to help people around the world access high quality English learning online, based on 30 years of experience in teaching and managerial roles in English language teaching organisations in a number of countries. He’s also still a highly experienced and passionate English Language teacher and responsible for our A1 General English Course

Stephanie Marston

Stephanie is Head of Education at Perfectly Spoken and is driven by her goal to achieve quality content learning for all our students. Among her many achievements for Perfectly Spoken, Stephanie regularly leads our popular live Masterclasses and Open Classes and has devised and created a number of specially commissioned specialist self-study programmes including ‘Preparing for University’, ‘Business English for Professionals’ and an ‘English for Teachers’ foundation course

Xela Falgueras

Xela is our Customer Services Director and is dedicated to providing the best possible help and support for all our students. She has a degree in Education as well as an MBA. Xela worked in senior management roles for several world leading technology companies in the UK before returning to live in her native Barcelona. She speaks 5 languages and believes firmly in the power of online education and learning languages- and English in particular- to transform people’s lives.

Meet our current Teachers

We are extremely proud of the high quality and experience of our Teachers. They all are:

  • University graduates (most have a second degree)
  • CELTA or DELTA qualified. From the prestigious University of Cambridge, these qualifications are widely recognised as the best in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFFL)- a guarantee of quality.
  • Highly experienced. All our teachers have a minimum of 10 years of practical teaching experience both in the classroom and online for world leading educational and English language institutions. Many also train teachers as well.

Our experience is not just limited to academia.  As well as world class teachers, our team also includes highly qualified professionals in a variety of fields, including technology, marketing, finance and law.

 

Stephanie Marston – Head Teacher

Stephanie Marston graduated with a degree in English Literature and went on to gain a Masters in Publishing Studies. She has practical experience of working in an international business context and for this reason has specialised in teaching business English in multinational companies. Stephanie has lived and worked in Yokohama, Milan and London and has been teaching students to communicate more effectively and confidently for over ten years. She has taught on a wide range of courses including; IELTS, interview preparation and presentation skills. Stephanie is Head of Education at Perfectly Spoken and passionate about delivering quality learning content for all our students

Natalie Gommon

Natalie Gommon has over twenty years’ experience teaching English as a Foreign Language.(EFL) She has worked in a wide variety of contexts from universities, large corporations and even primary schools. She has experience teaching on the Cambridge Courses: FCE, CAE and CPE. She now also specialises in English for Specific Purposes (research in health sciences) and Oral Communication Skills. Natalie has also devised and created self-study English language courses for newspaper publishers which are distributed in a number of countries around the world. She is really pleased to be part of the Perfectly Spoken team and thinks it’s an excellent way to bring top-quality teachers to students all over the world.

Andy Nicoll

Andy Nicoll is a University of Cambridge DELTA (Diploma in English Language Teaching) qualified teacher with over fifteen years of experience in the field. As well as teaching and directing general English in language schools, he has provided language training to politicians, senior civil servants, university staff, secondary school teachers and departmental managers in the chemical industry. Andy has considerable experience in preparing students for all levels of Cambridge exams including KET, PET, FCE, CAE and PCE. He has also worked in the field of online language teaching since 2005. Andy is delighted to be involved with the Perfectly Spoken project as it gives students from every corner of the world access to the very best in English language teaching.

Elen Evans

Elen Evans has over eighteen years experience working as an English teacher in Italy, Portugal, Egypt, UK and Spain. She has taught all levels from beginner to proficiency, including exam preparation courses such as PET, KET, FCE, CAE and CPE and she has worked as a Cambridge oral examiner for years. She has also worked for the British Council on various occasions, where she trained for and obtained her Cambridge DELTA certificate. She has also worked as a teacher trainer.As well as being an experienced and passionate English teacher, she is trained in Natural Sciences and loves teaching science through English especially to children
She is delighted to be part of the Perfectly Spoken team as she sees online teaching and learning as realistic and complementary to our world today.

Anna Cochrane

Anna Cochrane has been a project manager and journalist on business publications before dedicating herself to teaching English. She uses her experience making presentations, interacting with clients, and writing effectively to help our business students achieve their goals. She has also spent many years preparing students for Cambridge exams (IELTS, CAE, FCE, PCE, PET and KET) with an excellent rate of success. As a speaker of Spanish, Catalan and French, she has a real understanding of what it’s like to learn a foreign language. She’s travelled all over the world, and her interests include photography, cooking and dress-making.

Sara Djuric

Sara has hands-on and online ESL teaching experience at different levels, working for a number of schools and universities in New Zealand and for highly reputable online language schools. Over the years, she has taught a variety of general and business English courses as well as closed cultural groups and exam preparation courses and invigilated a number of IELTS exams. Sara speaks four languages fluently which has always given her amazing connection and rapport with her students from all over the globe.

Stuart Lewis

Stuart was born and grew up in Canada but has lived half his life in Europe and South-East Asia. He has a degree in Fine Arts and is qualified with both the CELTA and DELTA. He has designed and delivered courses to a broad range of public and private organisations in Europe and Asia. He has taught lawyers, scientists and government officials for leading organisations including the British Council. He is an official exam tutor (TOEFL, IELTS, FCE, CAE, CPE) and  is our Perfectly Spoken community manager on LinkedIn.

Oliver Sutton

Oliver Sutton has over 20 years of experience as an English Language teacher working in a variety of language schools and universities in the UK , the USA and Spain where he now lives. He has a wealth of experience of teaching at different levels, ages and approaches to teaching and specialises in teaching higher level classes, exam preparation classes and pronunciation. Oliver has a Masters Degree in Philosophy and counts the field of mental health among the areas he has worked in outside ELT.

Interested in joining our Team of Teachers?

We are a small team but always looking for exceptional freelance professionals to join us

 

If you

  • have the same experience and qualifications as our current expert teachers,
  • are passionate about helping students learn English and
  • have comfortably embraced technology and the online world as the future for English language learning

Then we’d love to hear from you!

Please fill the form below and we will contact you when we have an open position where we believe you could fit in.

  • About You

  • About your University degree

  • BA/MA - University - Year
  • About your English teaching qualifications

  • Please select all that apply
  • About your practical English language teaching experience

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