Outstanding Teacher Biography: Alphonse Chérel

Alphonse Chérel, born 1882, was a frenchman who discovered an extremely simple method of learning that enabled him to learn English, German, Russian. The core principles of his method were very simple:

• Make and don't break a commitment to learn Daily
• Make progress, but don't overload yourself
• Re-cap what you have previously learnt often
• Make the lessons fun and it will be a pleasure to learn

These principles have since been built on, both by Alphonse and his decendents who created the Assimil publishing company, who sell self-study courses for learning a foreign language. Whilst this company is relatively unknown in the UK and US, it is extremely successful in Europe.

Though you may want to try out an Assimil course if you are wishing to learn a language (if you commit to between 30-60 minutes every day for 150 days, you will probably learn between 2000-3000 words in your new language, quite a start!), if you are learning other subjects these same principals can still be applied.