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Summary of Contents for Franklin IC-159
- Page 1 For Use with the Franklin ® Digital Book System Electronic Publishers IC-159 ™ DIGITAL BOOK OXFORD ENGLISH/ARABIC STUDENT’S SPEAKING DICTIONARY User’ s Manual...
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Page 2: License Agreement
FRANKLIN. Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive license to use the DIGITAL BOOK on a single FRANKLIN Digital Book System at a time. You may not make any copies of the DIGITAL BOOK or of the data stored therein, whether in electronic or print format. -
Page 3: Table Of 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 Translating Arabic Words ... 13 Finding Phrases ... 14 Finding English Inflections ... - Page 4 The Oxford English/Arabic Student’s Speaking Dic- tionary digital book provides a powerful, portable new way for speakers of Arabic to learn English. Using this digital book, you can look up English defi- nitions by entering either Arabic or English words. And you can view the menus and messages in either Arabic or English.
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Page 5: Key Guide
Clear a search. CLEAR Display the main menus or Entry screen. MENU Display the games to select. GAMES Display English phrases containing a word. MORE Display the inflection of an English word. L I S T Hear an English word. (On the DBS-2D SPEC keyboard, function). - Page 6 Back up, erase a letter, or stop the highlight. BACK Enter a word or phrase, select a menu ENTER item, or start the highlight in entries. Display a help message. HELP Shift keys to type capital letters, etc. SHIFT Type a space. SPACE At the Entry screen, type a question mark to stand for a letter in word.
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Page 7: Installing The Digital Book
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. -
Page 8: Changing The Language
Changing the Language You can use this digital book in Arabic 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. -
Page 9: Viewing A Demonstration
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 5. Press CLEAR Setting the Shutoff Time The shutoff time is how long the Digital Book Sys-... -
Page 10: Looking Up English Words
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 type capitals, accents, or spaces. 3. -
Page 11: Using The Entries Menu
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 until the correct accent appears. Using the Entries Menu You can also scan the Entries menu to find En- glish words. -
Page 12: Hearing English Words
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. - Page 13 Hearing English Words over the lazy dog and then press 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.
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Page 14: Translating Arabic Words
Translating Arabic Words Keywords are translations of English words appear- ing in this digital book. By entering an Arabic key- word, you can finds its English equivalent(s). 1. If you’re not at the main menus, press 2. Highlight the Keywords menu. 3. -
Page 15: Finding Phrases
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... -
Page 16: Finding English Inflections
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 L I S T 4. Press , the DN key, or 5. Press repeatedly to view more inflections. -
Page 17: Finding English Spellings
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 3. -
Page 18: Highlighting Words In Definitions
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 4. -
Page 19: Playing The Games
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 and then select a game. GAMES Hangman In Hangman, you have a certain number of tries ( # ) to guess the mystery word ( ? ). - Page 20 Flashcards flashes words on the screen for you to define or study. If you want to view the definitions of the word, press Flashcards. If you do not want to find the definition, press to continue viewing words. SPACE All aboard the Word Train! You and the train take turns typing letters to form a word.
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Page 21: Sending Words Between Books
Sending Words Between Books This digital book can send and receive words to and from certain other digital books. To learn if another digital book can send and receive words, read its User’s Manual. NOTE: You must have more than one digital book in- stalled in your Digital Book System before following these steps. -
Page 22: Digital Book System
Digital Book System Resetting the Digital Book System To reset the Digital Book System, hold pressing ON/OFF on the back of the Digital Book System. (Read its Ba- sic Operating Guide for details.) WARNING: Resetting the Digital Book System may permanently erase information, such as notes, that you have entered in the installed digital books. -
Page 23: Replacing The Batteries
Replacing the Batteries DBS-1 and DBS-2 models use four 3-volt, CR2032 lithium batteries. DBS-2D models use four 1.5-volt, AA batteries. 1. Have new batteries ready. 2. Turn the Digital Book System off. 3. Slide the battery cover off the back. 4. -
Page 24: Specifications
Oxford Student’s Dictionary of Current English/Arabic © Oxford University Press, 1978, 1988. © 1993 First Byte. All rights reserved. Digital Book System is a registered trademark of Franklin. Match-Maker, SpellBlaster II, and Word Train are trade- marks of Franklin. U.S. Patents: 4,490,811; 4,830,618; 5,113,340; 5,218,536;... -
Page 25: Limited Warranty
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) FRANKLIN warrants to you that the DIGITAL BOOK will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your DIGITAL BOOK, FRANKLIN will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you made your purchase or Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.,... - Page 26 Your Notes...
- Page 27 Your Notes...
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