Franklin BOOKMAN BFS-840 User manual

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User’s Guide/Mode d’emploi
BFS-840
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French Professor/
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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
anddefine morethan 250,000words,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 & Book Cards...................................4
Selecting Books & Using the Color Keys ........................5
Changing the Language ................................................. 6
Viewing a Demonstration...............................................7
Translating English Words..............................................7
Translating French Words ..............................................8
Highlighting a Word .......................................................9
Hearing an English Word................................................9
Learning Inflections ....................................................... 10
Finding a Letter ............................................................. 11
Finding a Prefix ............................................................. 11
Correcting Misspellings .................................................12
Using your Personal List................................................12
Sending a Word ............................................................. 14
Changing Game Settings ...............................................14
Playing the Games ......................................................... 15
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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
Typesaspaceorpagesdownintext.
? ✽
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.
✩
+ L Shows the personal word list .
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.
PARLE
(blue) Says an English word.
CARTE
Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
Key Guide
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow, and
blue) perform the functions listed
above only for the BOOKMAN book
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.” *Hold
✩
while pressing the other key.
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BOOKMAN model 840 uses four AAA
batteries. Here is how to install or re-
place them.
Warning: When the batteries lose
powerorareremovedfromBOOKMAN,
information that you entered in its built-
in book, and in an installed book card,
will be erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN over.
2. Slide off its battery cover in
the direction of the triangle.
3. Install the batteries with their
positive sides facing you.
4. Replace the battery cover.
Installing 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.
Installing Book Cards
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card while your BOOKMAN is
on. Any information that was entered in
the built-in book or book card will be
erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn your 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.
➤ Removing Book Cards
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Once you have installed a book card in
yourBOOKMAN,youmustselectwhich
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.
Selecting Books Using the Color Keys
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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.
On the top row of your BOOKMAN the
red, green, yellow, and blue colour keys
change functions according to the book
card you select.
If you are using the built-in book, the
colour keys function as labeled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. If you select a
book card, the colour keys function as
labeled on that book card.
Remember, when you select a book
card,the colourkeys functionaslabeled
on that book card, not the keyboard.
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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.
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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▼
Changing theMessage Language
➤ Changing the Contrast
If you want to change the screen
contrast, repeatedly press or at
the blank ready screen.
Changing the Message
Language
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Translating English Words
With the French Professor you are able
totranslateEnglishwordsto Frenchsim-
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
➤ 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> would show the word to be
feminine.
When no book cartridge is installed in
your BOOKMAN, a demonstration au-
tomatically appears after you select this
book. To stop the demo, press
EFFAC
.
To disable it, press
MENU
and then se-
lect Disable Demo . To re-enable it, se-
lect
Enable Demo .
When a book cartridge is installed, se-
lect View Demo from the menu to view
the demo.
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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.
➤ Understanding Definitions
Whenyoufinda definition, you may see
thatthereareseveraldifferent 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.
Thecapitalized wordsfound inbrack-
etsindicate there'sanothercategory
thatthiswordcouldbe usedwith.For
example, if you are talking about a
chess man, you would use the word
“pièce” instead of “homme”.
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Highlighting a Word
You can look up most words by highlight-
ing them within dictionary definitions. You
can then find their definitions, translations,
and synonyms. NOTE: By searching for a
highlighted word, the entry language
changes to the language of the word for
which you searched.
1. At any text, press
ENTRER
to
start the highlight.
Youcanturnthehighlightoffbypress-
ing
ARR
.
2. Use the arrow keys to high-
light a word.
3. Do one of the following:
To... Press...
define the word
ENTRER
view inflections
CONJ
hear an English word
PARLE
You can hear any English word pro-
nouncedat the Ready screen,intext, or
ina list. NOTE:Youcanonlyhearwords
ifyouhavea speaking BOOKMAN unit.
Hearing Words from the Ready
Menu
1. Type a word at the Ready screen.
2. Press
PARLE
.
Hearing Words in Text
1. Go to a definition.
2. Press
PARLE
.
The headword is pronounced.
3. Press
ENTRER
to start the highlight.
4. Use the arrow keys to highlight
a word.
5. Press
PARLE
.
The highlighted word is pronounced.
Hearing Words in a List
1. Go to your User’s or Path list.
2. Press or to highlight a
word on the list.
3. Press
PARLE
to hear the word.
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▼▼
Hearing an English Word
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