Franklin BQF-2025 User manual

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MINITEL
French Professor /
Professeur d’Anglais
USER’S GUIDE • MODE D’EMPLOI
BQF-2025
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www.franklin.com

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Contents
Installing Book Cards & Selecting Books ....................... 4
Using the Color Keys ..................................................... 5
Changing the Language ................................................. 5
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 6
Translating English Words ............................................. 7
Translating French Words .............................................. 8
Learning Inflections ....................................................... 8
Finding a Letter ............................................................. 9
Finding a Prefix ............................................................. 10
Correcting Misspellings ................................................. 10
Using your Personal List................................................ 11
Highlighting Words ........................................................ 12
Sending Words .............................................................. 13
Changing Game Settings ............................................... 13
Playing the Games ......................................................... 14
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec-
tronic reference with a built-in book and a
slot in the back for more books. With this
French Professor , you can now translate
and define more than 250,000 words, cor-
rect misspellings of both French and En-
glish words, view noun, adjective, and verb
inflections, and save words to a Personal
word list for a more enjoyable way to learn.
To learn how to use other books, read their
User’s Guides.

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Function Keys
EFFAC
Clears to the Ready screen.
MENU
Shows Additional Functions menu.
CONJ
(red) Show inflections of a word.
LANG
(green) Switches between English
and French entry languages.
JEUX
(yellow) Shows the games list.
LISTE
(blue) ShowsPersonal list menu.
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 keys to type punctuation.
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
Move 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.
➤ 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
book cards and listed in their User’s
Guides. For more information, read
“Using the Color Keys.”

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Warning: Never install or remove a
book card while your BOOKMAN is
turned on. If you do, information that you
entered in its built-in book, and in an in-
stalled book card, will be erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn BOOKMAN over.
3.
Align the tabs on the book card
with the notches in the slot.
4. Press the book card down
until it snaps into place.
Installing Book Cards
➤ Removing Book Card
Warning: When you remove a
book card to install another,
information that you entered into the
removed book card will be erased.
Selecting Books
➤ 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 book card in
your BOOKMAN, you must select which
book 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.

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Using the Color Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on
your BOOKMAN change functions accord-
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 book
card is selected, the color keys function
as labelled on that book card.
Remember, the color keys for BOOK-
MAN books in book cards function as
labelled on their book cards, not as on
the keyboard.
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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.
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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 Contrast
If you want to change the screen
contrast, repeatedly press or at
the blank ready screen.
Viewing a Demonstration
➤ 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.
When no book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, a demonstration automati-
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.
Changing the Language

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Translating English Words
With the French Professor you are able
to translate English words to French sim-
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.
➤ 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> would show the word to be
feminine.
Translating English Words
➤ Understanding Definitions
When you find a definition, you may see
that there are several different meanings
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.
The capitalized words found in brack-
ets indicate there's another category
that this word could be used with. For
example, if you are talking about a
chess man, you would use the word
“piéce” instead of “homme”.

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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-
peatedly until the accent you want ap-
pears. If you want to type a
ç, then
hold
✩
and press
C
.
3. Press
ENTRER
.
In addition to "poisson", the French
Professor translates words with simi-
lar meanings such as “les Poissons”,
which means the astrological sign
Pisces. To view more press .
4. Press
EFFAC
when done.
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. Use the direction keys to read.
5. Press either
CONJ
or hold
✩
and press BAS repeatedly to
view more inflections.
If the word is a noun, an adjective, or
another modifier, then there won’t be
any other inflections.
6. Press
EFFAC
when done.

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Learning Inflections
➤ 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-
ing verb forms: present indicative, im-
perfect indicative, past definite, future,
conditional, present subjunctive, im-
perfect subjunctive, perfect indicative,
pluperfect indicative, preterite anterior,
future perfect, conditional perfect,
perfect subjunctive, pluperfect sub-
junctive, imperative, and the present
participle.
If you are uncertain how to spell a word,
type a question mark in place of each
unknown letter. You can use more than
one question mark per word; however,
you will get a longer list of matches.
1. Type a word with ?’s (e.g.,
port?).
2. Press
ENTRER
.
3. Highlight a match.
4. Press
ENTRER
to see the word’s
translation.
Finding a Letter
➤Deeper Correction
If you select
Deeper correction from a
correction list, you will get a longer list
of more detailed corrections than the
previous list.