Franklin BOOKMAN BQF-440 User manual

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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY
B OO K MAN
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French Professor™/
Professeur d’Anglais
USER’S GUIDE
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Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec-
tronic library with a built-in book and a slot
in the back for more books. With this
French Professor , you can now translate
anddefinemorethan200,000words,cor-
rect misspellings of both French and En-
glishwords,viewnoun,adjective,andverb
inflections, and save words to a Personal
wordlistforamoreenjoyablewaytolearn.
Tolearnhowtouseotherbooks,readtheir
User’s Guides.
Contents
Installing Batteries & Cards ........................................... 4
Selecting a Book ........................................................... 5
Using the Color Keys..................................................... 5
Changing the Language ................................................. 6
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 7
Translating English Words ............................................. 7
Translating French Words .............................................. 8
Learning Inflections....................................................... 9
Finding a Letter ............................................................. 10
Finding a Prefix ............................................................. 10
Correcting Misspellings................................................. 11
Using your Personal List................................................ 11
Highlighting a Word ....................................................... 13
Sending a Word Between Books .................................... 13
Changing Game Settings ............................................... 14
Playing the Games......................................................... 14

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➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow, and
blue) perform the functions listed
above only for the BOOKMAN book
card described in this User’s Guide.
Other books have their own color key
functions, which are labelled on their
cards and listed in their User’s Guides.
For more information, read “Using the
Color Keys.”
Function Keys
EFFAC
Clears to the ready screen.
MENU
ShowsAdditionalFunctionsmenu.
CONJ
(red) Show inflections of a word.
LANG
(green) SwitchesbetweenEnglish
and French entry languages.
JEUX
(yellow) Shows the games list.
LISTE
(blue)ShowsPersonallistmenu.
CARTE
Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
Key Guide
Other Keys
ARR
Backs up, erases letters, or
stops a highlight.
MAJ
Shifts
? ✽
to type an asterisk.
ENTRER
Enters a search, selects a
menu item, or starts a highlight.
AIDE
Shows help messages.
ESPACE
Types a space or pages down.
? ✽
Types a ? to stand for an
unknown letter in a word;
shifted, types an
✽ to stand
for a series of unknown letters.
Direction Keys
Moves in indicated direction.
Star Key Combinations*
✩
+
CARTE
Sends a word between
books.
✩
+ BAS Shows the next word or
inflection group.
✩
+ HT Shows the previous word
or inflection group.
*Hold
✩
while pressing the other key.

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➤ Removing Cards
Warning: When you remove a card
to install another, information that you
entered into the removed card will be
erased.
BOOKMANmodel440usestwolithium
CR-2032 batteries. Here is how to in-
stall or replace them.
Warning: When the batteries lose
powerorareremovedfromBOOKMAN,
information that you entered in its built-
in book, and in an installed card, will be
erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN over.
2. Slide off its battery cover in
the direction of the triangle.
3. Install the batteries following
the diagram in the case.
4. Replace the battery cover.
Warning: Never install or remove a
card when BOOKMAN is on. If you do,
information that you entered in its built-
in book, and in an installed card, will be
erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the card
with the notches in the slot.
4. Press the card down until it
snaps into place.
Installing CardsInstalling Batteries
➤Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off BOOKMAN at any
screen. When you turn BOOKMAN
on again, the screen that you last
viewed appears.

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➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ from what
you see on the actual screen. This
does not mean that your BOOK-
MAN is malfunctioning.
Once you have installed a card in your
BOOKMAN,youcanselectwhichbook
you want to use.
1. Turn BOOKMAN on.
2. Press
CARTE
.
These are sample books.
3. Press or to highlight the
book you want to use.
4. Press
ENTRER
to select it.
Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on
yourBOOKMANchangefunctionsaccord-
ing to which book is selected.
When the built-in book is selected, the
color keys function as labelled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. When a card
book is selected, the color keys func-
tion as labelled on that card.
Remember, the color keys for BOOK-
MANbooksincardsfunctionaslabelled
on their cards, not as on the keyboard.
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➤ Changing the Contrast
If you want to change the screen
contrast, repeatedly press or at
the blank ready screen.
Entry Language
The entry language is the language in
which you enter words at ready
screens. This determines which
dictionary you will use, French or
English.
1. If not at the Ready screen,
press
EFFAC
.
2. Press
LANG
to switch between
dictionaries.
Changing the Language
Message Language
When you turn on this product for the
first time, you must choose the
message language. The message
language is the language of prompts,
help, and other messages. You can
change the message language after
your initial decision.
NOTE: The examples in the English half
of this manual use English as the
message language.
1. Press
MENU
if you are not at the
Message language screen.
2. Press
A
to select the Message
language screen.
3. Press
B
to select English as
the message language; press
A
to select French.
▼
▼
Changing the Language

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➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at
virtually any screen by pressing
AIDE
. Press the direction keys to
read it. To exit help, press
ARR
.
To read a tutorial of how to use the
main functions and keys of this book,
select
Tutorial from the Additional
Functions menu.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows on the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can press to move around
menus or view more text.
➤ Explanation of Genders
French nouns are different than
English nouns in that they must
either be masculine or feminine. The
<m> means that the word listed
(e.g.,
chat ) is masculine. Likewise
an <f> shows the word to be
feminine.
Translating English Words
With the French Professor you are able
totranslateEnglishwordstoFrenchsim-
ply by typing English words.
1. Press
EFFAC
.
2. Press
LANG
to change the
entry language to English, if
needed.
3. Type a word (e.g., cat).
To erase a letter press
ARR
.
4. Press
ENTRER
.
5. Press
EFFAC
when finished.
Viewing a Demonstration
When no book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN,a demonstrationautomati-
cally appears after you select this book.
To stop the demo, press
EFFAC
. To dis-
able it, press
MENU
and then select Dis-
able Demo . To re-enable it, select En-
able Demo
.
When a book card is installed, select
View Demo from the menu to view the
demo.

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➤ Understanding Definitions
Whenyoufindadefinition, you may see
thatthereareseveraldifferentmeanings
for your word. Here is an example.
1. Type man .
2. Press
ENTRER
.
This screen shows that “homme” is
the most common use of the word.
Thecapitalizedwordsfoundinbrack-
etsindicatethere'sanothercategory
thatthiswordcouldbeusedwith.For
example, if you are talking about a
chess man, you would use the word
“piéce” instead of “homme”.
Translating English Words Translating French Words
Your French Professor is fully bilingual.
Try translating a French word.
1. Press
LANG
to change the
entry language from English
to French, if needed.
2. Type a word (e.g., poisson).
If you need to type an accent, type
the letter (e.g.,
e ) and press re-
peatedlyuntiltheaccentyouwantap-
pears.
3. Press
ENTRER
.
In addition to "poisson", the French
Professortranslateswordswithsimi-
larmeaningssuchas“lesPoissons”,
which means the astrological sign
Pisces. To view more press .
4. Press
EFFAC
when done.

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➤ Getting Grammar Guidance
When viewing inflections, you can
press
AIDE
to view detailed descrip-
tions of how to use inflections, with
usage examples.
➤ Viewing English Inflections
If you are unfamiliar with inflections, it
may be helpful to look at some
inflected forms of English verbs.
Switch the entry language back to
English, type
be , and press
CONJ
to
see the different forms of the English
verb “to be”. This will give you a good
idea of each inflection form.
➤ Verb Inflection Forms
Your
French Professor has the follow-
ingverbforms:presentindicative,imper-
fectindicative,pastdefinite,future,con-
ditional, present subjunctive, imperfect
subjunctive,perfectindicative,pluperfect
indicative, preterite anterior, future per-
fect,conditionalperfect,perfectsubjunc-
tive, pluperfect subjunctive, imperative,
and the present participle.
Learning Inflections Learning Inflections
Inflections show changes in a word’s
meaning or function. This dictionary in-
cludes extensive inflections of nouns,
verbs, modifiers, and other words.
1. Press
LANG
to switch to the
French ready screen.
2.
Type a French word (e.g., écrire).
3. Press
CONJ
.
These are the principal forms of the
verb écrire .
4. Press either
CONJ
or hold
✩
and press BAS repeatedly to
view more inflections.
If the word is a noun, an adjective, or
anothermodifier,thentherewon’tbe
any other inflections.
5. Use the direction keys to read.
6. Press
EFFAC
when done.