Franklin Language Master LM-6000 User manual

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ADVANCED THESAURUS FEATURES
The thesaurus in your Language Master offers meaning statements, synonyms,
antonyms and compares. The meaning statements precede the other information
and help you choose the correct set of synonyms, antonyms, etc.
The Language Master includes “antonyms” and “compares” in its thesaurus infor-
mation. Antonyms are words which mean the opposite of the word you looked up.
Compares are words which are close in meaning to the word you looked up, but
not close enough to be a synonym. Use a compare when you’re looking for a word
that approximates the one you looked up. Use a synonym when you want a word
exactly like the one you looked up.
Press . Type in astute. Press . The dictionary information for
“astute” appears. Press . Your screen now looks like the one below:
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Use the down arrow key until the screen below appears:
Notice the antonym and compares on the screen above.
Let’s look at the example below to see what the number next to a compare means.
Press . The word “SYNONYMS” is now highlighted. Use the arrow keys
until “sharp” is highlighted. Press , then press . The thesaurus infor-
mation for “sharp” now appears. Press the “FWD” key. You are now viewing the
second thesaurus entry for the word “sharp” which is a compare for the word “as-
tute.”
You may also use the “pick” method of looking up a word to see information about
a word’s antonym.
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GRAMMAR GUIDE
The LM-6000 comes equipped with a complete Grammar Guide. You can access
the Grammar information at any time by pressing — from a dictionary
entry, from the thesaurus, or from the typing screen. To see the complete list of
Grammar topics, press and then press . You will see:
You can now move the highlight down through this table of contents using either
or Shift- . When you see a topic you’d like to read about, press .
Or, simply start at the top with the “Parts of Speech” chapter and read straight
through, pressing for each new chapter.
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But there’s another way. The Grammar Guide has been electronically indexed to
respondwiththeprecisepassageorpassagesrelevanttoyourparticularquestion.
For instance, suppose you are interested transitive verbs. Type “transitive” at the
“Typeintheword”screenandpress .You will immediately see the Gram-
mar Guide section on transitive verbs. If more than one section is relevant to your
query, you will see a menu of the relevant sections. For instance, if you type “pos-
sessive” and press , you will see three topics from which to choose:
The Grammar Guide will accept as a query any word or phrase that is in the LM-
6000 dictionary. Therefore, you could type “direct object” and press , be-
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cause the phrase “direct object” has its own entry in the dictionary. But you couldn’t
type “transitive verb” or “verb that takes an object after it”, because these phrases
are not separately defined in this dictionary.
You can even use the Grammar Guide to get information about the punctuation
marks on the keyboard. For example, you may wish to know how to use the “;”
(semicolon). You don’t even need to know the name of it — just type it and press
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If a word is not a special grammatical term like “superlative”, but just an ordinary
word like “albatross” or “relieve”, then pressing while such a word is se-
lected will bring up just the chapters relevant to that word’s part of speech. If you
see a word in the Grammar Guide itself that you would like to look up in the dictio-
nary, press to highlight words in the Grammar Guide, move the cursor to
the word you want using the arrow keys, then press .
Grammar Quiz
Some sections of the Grammar Guide have Quiz Exercises to help you sharpen
your grammar skills. A message at the end of the section tells you when these are
available.
Press while viewing the grammar information to see the exercises.
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SPEECH
Speech is a powerful teaching tool with the LM-6000. You may actually listen to the
word you are viewing.
The Language Master has a Dynamic Pronunciation Guide (DPG) which will pro-
nounce the individual sounds of the word you listened to. To make the learning ex-
perience even more complete, examples of a sound’s usage are shown on the
screen.
Type the word yachting. Press . In a short while, the word is pro-
nounced and the screen below appears:
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The screen you are now viewing is called the Dynamic Pronunciation Guide™
screen, or DPG screen for short.
Notice that the “y” in the words “yachting” and “you” are highlighted. This is to illus-
trate the first sound in the word “yachting.”
Press to hear the first sound: y.
To hear the next sound of the word “yachting,” press . The next sound is pro-
nounced and the screen below appears:
The letter “a” in “yachting” is now highlighted, as are the occurrences of the letter
“a” in the examples under it.
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At this point you may press to hear the previous sound or to hear the
next one. You may even try using and . Notice that as you move around
between the sounds of the word, the examples change.
Press repeatedly to hear a word’s sound more than once. Press
to hear the entire word pronounced again. Press or to leave the
DPG screen.
Speaking from a Dictionary Screen
There are a few ways you may use the speech feature from a dictionary informa-
tion screen.
Type in the word mice. Press . The screen below appears:
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Press . The Language Master pronounces “mice”, the word that you typed
in, and the DPG screen for “mice” appears.
To return to the dictionary response screen for “mice”, press .
To hear the headword “mouse” pronounced, press . Notice that the word
“mouse”ishighlighted.Now, press .TheLanguage Masterpronouncesthe
word “mouse” and presents its DPG screen.
Speaking Full Sentences
You can even make the Language Master speak sentences or phrases. Type we
stopped by yesterday. Press .
Ifthe LanguageMaster doesn’trecognizeone ofthe words,acorrectionscreenwill
appear. After you select a correction, the words which you typed in will be spoken.
Some words also have more than one pronunciation. For example, there are two
pronunciations of “tear”. Choose which version you want to pronounce and press
. The words you typed are now pronounced.
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REVERSE DICTIONARY
A regular dictionary gives you the meanings of a word you look up. But sometimes
it’s the word itself you want — you can’t look it up because you’ve forgotten the
word.
The Language Master offers several tools for finding the word you want, just from
the meaning of the word or from pieces of it that you may remember.
CASE 1: You remember just part of a word or phrase
For instance, “There’s a fancy kind of milk that you sometimes find in health stores,
it’s good for you in certain way, ...something-something milk”.
SOLUTION: Since you’re sure of the “milk” part, you can use MatchMaker. Type +
milk and press . (The “+” stands for the part you can’t remember.) You’ll
see a list of all the phrases that end with the word “milk”. The one you want, “aci-
dophilus milk”, heads the list. Press to look it up.
CASE 2: You know a word that’s similar in meaning to the one you’ve forgotten.
For instance, there’s a fancy word that means ‘prohibit’, it’s longish but you aren’t
sure of enough of the word to use MatchMaker.
SOLUTION: Type in prohibit and look at its Thesaurus entry. Ah, there it is, “in-
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terdict”. To verify that this word has the shade of meaning you want, highlight it and
press .
CASE 3: The word has no synonyms but you know another word likely to be
classed with it in some way.
For instance, there’s an animal whose name you can’t recall but it’s rather like a
clam. Or, it’s one of the atomic elements or whatever they call them — hydrogen
or gold would be another example. Or, it’s a part of a horse, you know it but you’re
blocking on it — the only part of a horse you can think of at the moment is “mane”.
SOLUTION: Type in “clam”, or “hydrogen”, or “mane” as the case may be, and look
at the Classmates.
CASE 4: You know more or less what the word means
If you have enough further information about the word that it falls into any of Cases
1 through 3, then MatchMaker, Thesaurus, or Classmates is quickest. But maybe
your memory of the word is very hazy and you can’t think of a synonym or anything.
SOLUTION: Search Definitions. This deserves a section of its own.
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Search Definitions
Press . Use the arrow keys to highlight the Search menu, if necessary. The
Search function lets you find every word whose definition contains a word you type
in. Highlight the command “Type word(s) to search on” and then press .
You now have a place to type your query.
Suppose you’re trying to recall the special kind of insect that can give you malaria.
Type “malaria” in the space provided and press . You are taken to the first
entry whose definition mentions the word “malaria”. Press the “FWD” key for the
next such entry. Keep pressing the “FWD” key until you find the entry you want.
(Ah, there it is: anopheles.)
Press . Notice that now there are three commands under the “Search”
heading:Continuesearching...,Searchon“anopheles”,Typeword(s)tosearchon.
The first command allows you to search for the next definition which includes the
word(s) you already typed (malaria). The second command allows you to search
using the headword of the definition you found (anopheles). The third command
lets you type in something else to search on.
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You can type more than one word at a time to search on. For instance, get the
Searchmenuagainandtype“chinesevegetable”inthespaceprovided,thenpress
. You will see the first entry whose definition contains both the words “Chi-
nese” and “vegetable”. Keep pressing the “FWD” key to see all such entries.
Often you may want to find an entry that mentions either of two words, not both of
them. This is especially the case when you have no way of knowing exactly how
the definition will be worded. In this case type your first word, then “or”, then the
second word, and search on these just as you would on a single word. Examples:
“prehistoric or extinct”; “boat or ship”. (Note: anytime you search on a noun, the
Language Master automatically searches on both the singular and plural forms, so
you don’t have to type things like “horse or horses”.)
You can have up to three words in your query at one time, not counting the word
“or”. If you search on “boat or ship or vessel”, you will find entries that mention any
one of these words. If you search on “American Civil War”, you will find entries that
use all three of these words.
You can combine the “or” kind of search with the other kind. If you search on “ra-
dioactive form or isotope”, you will find all entries that use either “radioactive” and
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“form”, or “radioactive” and “isotope”. If you search on “extinct or prehistoric mam-
mal” you will find all entries that mention either “extinct” and “mammal” or “prehis-
toric” and “mammal”. Please bear in mind that the Language Master is searching
through thousands upon thousands of definitions to find the words you want, so
Search Definitions is relatively slow compared with the other functions of the LM-
6000.
CONFUSABLES
Do you occasionally have difficulty distinguishing between words which sound
alike yet are spelled differently, or words which are similar? We call these types of
words “Confusables”. The Language Master can help you differentiate between
them.
Type check, then press . The screen below appears:
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The “Conf” icon is now in bold font, indicating the availability of “Confusables”.
Use until the following screen appears:
Each of the “Confusables” is followed by a one-word description which will differ-
entiate between them. The descriptions will help you choose the correct word. If
you want to look at a more in-depth definition for one of the words, simply “pick” it
off of the screen and look at its definition. Press to return to the “Confus-
ables” screen.
USER LIST
The User Word List is a very handy feature. It allows you to add a list of personal
words to the Language Master. You can practice with words added to the User List
by using them in one of the Language Master’s many educational games.
Adding words to the User List
There are a variety of ways to add words to the User List. Let’s try the first method
now.
At the “Type...” screen, type the word comma and then press to view the
User List menu:
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