Discussion:Alphonse Chérel

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Alphonse Cherel Biography Birth June 3, 1882 Death September 7, 1956 (at age 74) Libourne Nationality french Activity Linguist Alphonse Chérel is a French polyglot, author and entrepreneur born in Rennes on June 3, 1882, and died in Libourne on September 7, 1956, creator of the Assimil method. Biography Son of a miller, he grew up in the family mill in Romazy (Ille-et-Vilaine) and obtained the baccalaureate. He was employed as a tutor in 1902 in England (London), then in 1906 in Germany (Berlin). In 1909, he joined his brother Georges Chérel in Russia (Moscow). In the spring of 1914, he was mobilized. Thanks to his mastery of English, German and Russian, he was appointed interpreter on the front. He left for Turkey, for the Franco-British operation at the Battle of the Dardanelles, where he was wounded. At the end of the war, he traveled to Spain and Italy, and again to Germany before settling in Paris in 1927. He designed a calendar with a daily English lesson, accompanied by a drawing by Pierre Soymier (1904-1977), published by Émile Busson printing works. His Assimil language method was born in 1929 with the release of L'Anglais sans sorrow. Following a bicycle accident, Alphonse Chérel had his leg amputated. He designs methods for Spanish, German, Russian and Italian. Like Jacques Roston in England, Alphonse Chérel exploited the use of the disc very early on and from 1933 recordings completed his language methods. Married in 1940, he has two sons, Jean-Loup Chérel (1942) and Gil Chérel (1944). After the war, Alphonse Chérel co-wrote a Portuguese method with his son Jean-Loup Chérel. He died in 1956. The business was taken over by his son Jean-Loup Chérel from 1968 to 2007, then by his grandson Yannick Chérel. 2801:15:8008:98:205A:70F5:798A:F00A (discuter) 5 septembre 2023 à 00:10 (CEST)