Franklin IC-159 User manual

User’s Manual
F™
For Use with the Franklin
Digital Book System®
DIGITAL BOOK
OXFORD
ENGLISH/ARABIC
STUDENT’S
SPEAKING
DICTIONARY

Electronic Publishers
IC-159
IC-159
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Electronic Publishers
F™

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Contents
Key Guide ..................................................... 4
Installing the Digital Book.............................. 6
Changing the Language................................ 7
Viewing a Demonstration .............................. 8
Looking up English Words ............................ 9
Hearing English Words ................................. 11
TranslatingArabic Words .............................. 13
Finding Phrases ............................................ 14
Finding English Inflections ............................ 15
Finding English Spellings .............................. 16
Highlighting Words in Definitions .................. 17
Playing the Games........................................ 18
Sending Words Between Books.................... 20
Digital Book System®.................................... 21
Specifications ................................................ 23
Limited Warranty ........................................... 24
✓About the Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this User’s Manual
may vary slightly from what you see on screen.
These variations do not mean that this digital book
or your Digital Book System is malfunctioning.

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Introduction
The Oxford English/Arabic Student’s Speaking Dic-
tionary digital book provides a powerful, portable
new way for speakers ofArabic to learn English.
Using this digital book, you can look up English defi-
nitions by entering eitherArabic or English words.
And you can view the menus and messages in either
Arabic or English.
Dictionary entries for English words include pronunci-
ation and grammatical information, multiple defini-
tions, and phrases showing how English words are
actually used.
In addition, you can actually hear the English words
in this dictionary pronounced aloud, as well as hear
English phrases and sentences.
You can also find the inflections of English words,
check and find English spellings, and play entertain-
ing games that build your knowledge of English.
✓Typing Arabic Characters
• This digital book can be used in any Digital Book
System. The Digital Book System model
DBS-2-AB has anArabic/English keyboard.
When using other Digital Book System models,
refer to the keyboard diagram in the Key Guide
of this manual to typeArabic characters.
• Keys not documented in the User’s Manual have
no effect in Digital Book System when you are
using this digital book.

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Key Guide
Function Keys
CLEAR
Clear a search.
MENU
Display the main menus or Entry screen.
GAMES
Display the games to select.
MORE
Display English phrases containing a word.
LIST
Display the inflection of an English word.
SPEC
Hear an English word. (On the DBS-2D
keyboard,
SAY
performs the same
function).
CARD
Exit the digital book.
ON/OFF
Turn the Digital Book System on or off.

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Key Guide
Other Keys
BACK
Back up, erase a letter, or stop the highlight.
ENTER
Enter a word or phrase, select a menu
item, or start the highlight in entries.
HELP
Display a help message.
SHIFT
Shift keys to type capital letters, etc.
SPACE
Type a space.
? *
At the Entry screen, type a question mark to
stand for a letter in word.At dictionary
entries, display the headword.
Direction Keys
Move in the indicated direction.
(At the Entry screen, accents a letter).
DN
UP Page down or up.
SPACE
Page down in text.
Key Combinations*
or Go to the top or bottom of a menu,
entry, or list.
DN
UP Display the next or previous entry,
phrase, or group of inflections.
CARD
Send a word to another digital book.
SHIFT ? *
At the Entry screen, type an asterisk to
stand for a series of letters in a word.
* Hold the first key while pressing the second.

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Installing the Digital Book
You must install this digital book in the Digital Book
System before you can use and read it.
WARNING: Never install a digital book when the Dig-
ital Book System is on. If you do, information that you
have entered in any other installed digital book(s)
may be permanently erased.
1. Turn off the Digital Book System.
2. Install the digital book into a slot on the back.
3. Press
ON/OFF
.
4. Turn the wheel on the side of the Digital Book
System to adjust its screen contrast.
If the screen is still blank, check the batteries.
5. Press
CARD
.
6. Press or to highlight the appropriate
digital book icon.
The icon you see may vary.
7. Press
ENTER
.
✓Resuming Where You Left Off
While using this digital book, you can turn off the
Digital Book System at any time. When you turn
the Digital Book System on again, the screen that
you last viewed appears.

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Changing the Language
You can use this digital book inArabic or in English.
When you select English only , menus, games, help
messages and other messages are in English.
NOTE: The examples in the English half of this Us-
er’s Manual use the
English only mode.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
MENU
to view the main menus.
3. Press the arrow keys to highlight the menu
at the far right.
4. Highlight
English only .
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
✓Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the bottom of the screen
show which arrow keys you can press to view
more menu items or text.
✓Learning English Phonetic Spellings
To learn about the phonetic spellings of English
words in this dictionary, select Pron info from the
Other menu. Then press to view the spellings.
Press
BACK
to return to the main menus.

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Viewing a Demonstration
Before you start using this digital book, you may
want to view a demonstration of what it can do.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
MENU
.
3. Highlight
Demo on the Other menu.
4. Press
ENTER
to start the demonstration.
5. Press
CLEAR
to stop the demonstration.
✓Setting the Shutoff Time
The shutoff time is how long the Digital Book Sys-
tem stays on if you forget to turn it off. To change
the shutoff time, highlight
Set Shutoff on the Other
menu and press
ENTER
. Then select a new time or
press
BACK
.
✓Help is at Hand
You can view a help message at most screens by
pressing
HELP
. Press or the DN key to read
the help. Press
BACK
to exit it. To learn what the
main key functions are, select
Overview from the
Other menu.

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Looking up English Words
The simplest way to find definition(s) of English words
and phrases is to enter them at the Entry screen.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type an English word or phrase.
To erase a letter, press
BACK
. You don’t need to
type capitals, accents, or spaces.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Press , the DN key, or
SPACE
to scroll down.
5. Hold and press the DN key to view the next
dictionary entry, alphabetically listed.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
✓If You Misspell an English Word
When you enter a misspelled word at the Entry
screen, a list of corrections automatically appears.
Highlight a correction and then press
ENTER
. Cor-
rections also appear when you enter a correctly
spelled word not found in this digital book.

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Looking up English Words
✓Typing Accents
You don’t need to type accents when you enter
English words such as résumé . However, if you
want accent a letter, first type the letter and then
press (or
ACNT
on the DBS-2D) repeatedly
until the correct accent appears.
✓Using the Entries Menu
You can also scan the Entries menu to find En-
glish words. First, press
MENU
. Then start typing a
word. When the word you want is highlighted,
press
ENTER
to view its entry.
✓Understanding Dictionary Entries
Each dictionary entry contains a wealth of infor-
mation. The headword, or main word, is in bold-
face, followed by its phonetic spelling in slashes
(/ /). When a headword has more than one dictio-
nary entry, its entry number is in superscript.
Grammatical information is presented in angle
brackets (< >). Phrases using the headword are
boldfaced. Usage examples are italicized.And
cross-references are in all capital letters.
✓What Entry Am I Viewing?
At any line in a dictionary entry, you can press
? *
to see the headword of that entry. You can also
press
? *
to see a highlighted headword on the
Entries menu.

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Hearing English Words
This digital book can pronounce aloud English words,
phrases, and sentences when it’s installed in a Digital
Book System with a speaker or earphone jack. Please
note, however, that only English words appearing in
this dictionary can be pronounced. Try this example.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word (e.g.,
international ).
3. Press
SPEC
to hear it.
4. Press
ENTER
to view its dictionary entry.
5. Press
SPEC
to hear the main word.
6. Press
ENTER
and then the arrow keys to
highlight a word (e.g.,
nations ).
7. Press
SPEC
to hear the highlighted word.
8. Press
CLEAR
when done.
✓Hearing Phrases and Sentences
You can hear many English phrases and sen-
tences by typing them at the Entry screen and
pressing
SPEC
. For example, type the fox jumped

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Hearing English Words
over the lazy dog and then press
SPEC
.
When typing phrases and sentences, don’t type
apostrophes, commas, semicolons, colons, or pe-
riods. These punctuation marks will prevent pro-
nunciation. (The exceptions are Mr. , Mrs. , and
Ms. )
Also, don’t type capital letters except at the start of
words. However, you can type and hear hyphen-
ated words (e.g., age-old ).
✓Hearing Multiple Pronunciations
When you type or enter a word that has more than
one pronunciation and then press
SPEC
, a screen
like the one below appears.
Highlight a word and then press
ENTER
or
SPEC
to
hear its pronunciation.
✓More About Hearing Words
• You can hear English words in spelling correction
lists. Simply highlight a correction on the list and
then press
SPEC
.
• You can’t hear words when inflections or games
are on screen.

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Translating Arabic Words
Keywords are translations of English words appear-
ing in this digital book. By entering anArabic key-
word, you can finds its English equivalent(s).
1. If you’re not at the main menus, press
MENU
.
2. Highlight the Keywords menu.
3. Type an Arabic word.
Usually you need to type only a few letters to
highlight the word you want.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Hold and press the DN key repeatedly
to view the next entries matching your keyword.
To view a previous entry, hold and press the
UP key.
6. Press
BACK
to go back to the menu.

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Finding Phrases
This digital book includes English phrases to help
you learn the idiomatic uses of words. It’s easy to
find phrases containing a certain word. Here’s how.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type an English word (e.g., run ).
3. Press
MORE
.
Or press
ENTER
and then press
MORE
.
4. Highlight a phrase.
5. Press
ENTER
.
6. Hold and press the DN key repeatedly
to view the next phrases containing the word.
7. Press
BACK
to go back to the phrases.
✓Understanding sb and sth
Many English phrases in this digital book contain
the abbreviations sb and sth . Sb stands for some-
body
and sth stands for something . You can sub-
stitute appropriate nouns and pronouns for these.

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Finding English Inflections
This digital book provides inflections of English
nouns, verbs, modifiers, and articles.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word (e.g.,
be ).
3. Press
LIST
.
4. Press , the DN key, or
SPACE
to scroll down.
5. Press
LIST
repeatedly to view more inflections.
Or hold and press the DN key.
6. Hold and press the UP key to view
a previous group of inflections.
✓Viewing Multiple Parts of Speech
For some English words (e.g., run ), when you
press
LIST
you must select a part of speech be-
fore you can view inflections. To select a part of
speech, highlight one and then press
ENTER
.
✓Getting Help With Inflections
To learn how and when to use inflections, press
HELP
while viewing inflections.

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Finding English Spellings
If you don’t know how to spell an English word, type
a question mark in place of each unknown letter or
an asterisk in place of a series of unknown letters.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type an English word with ?’s and ✻’s.
To type an asterisk, hold
SHIFT
and press
? *
.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Highlight a matching word.
5. Press
ENTER
to view its definition(s)
or
MORE
to view its phrases, if any.
✓Spelling Finding Tips
• Use question marks to find lists of words. For
example, to find four-letter words beginning with a
z , enter z??? .
• Use question marks to help solve crossword
puzzles and other word games. For example, if
the second letter of a five-letter word is
l and its
fourth letter is r , enter ?l?r? .

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Highlighting Words in Definitions
To learn more about English words, you can highlight
a word in a definition and then find its definition(s),
inflections, and phrases, if any.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Enter an English word (e.g.,
security ).
3. Press
ENTER
to view its dictionary entry.
4. Press
ENTER
again to start the highlight.
You can turn off the highlight by pressing
BACK
.
5. Press the arrow keys to highlight a word.
6. Press
ENTER
to view its dictionary entry,
LIST
to
view inflections, and
MORE
to view phrases.
7. Press
BACK
to go back to the highlighted word.
✓Viewing Cross-References
In dictionary entries, words in all capital letters are
cross-references to specific definitions in other
entries. To view a cross-reference, highlight it as
you would any other word and then press
ENTER
.

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Playing the Games
Selecting Word Sizes and Games
To set the difficulty of the games, select Game settings
from the Other menu and then select a word size.
To start playing, press
GAMES
and then select a game.
Hangman
In Hangman, you have a certain number of tries ( # )
to guess the mystery word (
? ). Type letters you think
might be in the mystery word. If you are correct, let-
ters appear in place of the corresponding question
mark.
To reveal a letter of the mystery word, hold
SHIFT
and press
? *
. To reveal the word and end the
round, press
? *
.
The score appears after each round. Press
SPACE
to
continue, or press
ENTER
to define the mystery word.
Then press
BACK
to select a new game or return
from a definition.

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Playing the Games
Flashcards
Flashcards flashes words on the screen for you to
define or study. If you want to view the definitions of
the word, press
ENTER
. Press
BACK
to return to
Flashcards. If you do not want to find the definition,
press
SPACE
to continue viewing words.
Word Train™
All aboard the Word Train! You and the train take
turns typing letters to form a word. Whoever types
the last letter of the word wins.
To view the set of letters that you can type at a turn,
hold
SHIFT
and press
? *
. To reveal the word and
end the round, press
? *
.
Press
SPACE
to continue or
ENTER
for the definition.
Then press
BACK
to return to Word Train.
✓Getting Help With the Games
You can read help messages about a game by
pressing
HELP
while playing it. To return to the
game, press
BACK
.