René Descartes
What if you actually made progress in French by reading a masterpiece - no dictionary, no effort, no giving up?This book is a bilingual edition: it contains the complete text in French AND in English, together in the same volume. You read French; English is right there to help you.Why a bilingual book? Unlike apps and textbooks, you learn with a real story that makes you want to turn the page. It is the most natural immersion method there is.THE METHODOrdinary bilingual editions make you lose the thread: the French text on the left, the English text on the right, and your eyes darting back and forth hunting for the right line. The result: you give up in the first few pages.Polyglot Publishing invented something else: synchronised line-by-line alternation. Every line in French is followed directly beneath by the same line in English - like subtitles, but on paper.Understand everything, instantly - the meaning of each word is checked at a glance, with no dictionary and no phoneImprove without noticing - your brain links the two languages unconsciously, sentence after sentence, and French grammar sinks in naturallyLearn French by finally reading what you love - a real classic, not textbook dialogueSuitable for every level: the translation helps when you need it - and never gets in the way of your reading.THE BOOKDescartes first recounts his education, the books he set aside and the travels that showed him how varied opinion is. He then sets out four rules for conducting his thought, and a provisional morality for living while he doubts.Methodical doubt leads him to the one certainty that withstands it, I think therefore I am, and from there he rebuilds. The work explores knowledge, the place of self-evidence and a science founded on reason rather than authority. He wrote it in French, as a personal narrative, to be read outside the schools.
