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Summary of Contents for Franklin Bookman ESL-580
- Page 1 BOOKMAN E X P A N D A B L E E L E C T R O N I C B O O K Speak English! USER’S GUIDE ESL-580...
- Page 2 LIMITED USE LICENSE All rights in the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK remain the property of FRANKLIN. Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and non- exclusive license to use the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK on a single FRAN- KLIN BOOKMAN at a time. You may not make any copies of the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK or of the preprogrammed data stored therein, whether in electronic or print format.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents ® Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN nunciations of about 2,000 words and BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable phrases, recording your own pronun- electronic reference with a built-in book ciations and then comparing both. and two slots in the back for more Speak English! also provides lessons, books. -
Page 4: Key Guide
Key Guide Color Keys Direction Keys ) Plays the prerecorded HEAR Scrolls through text or menus, or word(s). moves the cursor or highlight. ) Plays your recorded green Pages down or up. SELF word(s). Key Combinations* ) Plays your recorded yellow BOTH Goes to the next or previ-... -
Page 5: About The Special Features
Serial Port: The serial port allows your BOOKMAN, when connected by Volume Control: The dial located Franklin’s 3.5 mm serial cable, to trans- under the headphone jack controls the fer information to and from a personal volume of the headphones. -
Page 6: Installing The Batteries And Book Cards
Installing the Batteries Installing Book Cards Warning: Never install or remove a Your BOOKMAN model ESL-580 re- book card when your BOOKMAN is on. quires two AAA batteries. Here is how If you do, information that you’ve en- to install or replace them. tered in the built-in book, and in any in- 1. -
Page 7: Selecting A Book
Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys Once you have installed a book card in The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on your BOOKMAN, you can select the top row of your BOOKMAN change which book you want to use. Note: functions according to which book you The built-in book will be automatically have selected and are using. -
Page 8: Changing The Settings
Changing the Settings Viewing a Demonstration You can adjust the shutoff time and Before you start using your new screen contrast of this book. The shutoff BOOKMAN, you may want to see a time is how long your BOOKMAN stays brief demonstration of what it can do. -
Page 9: Using The Introduction
Hearing Correct Using the Introduction Pronunciations To get started, you can learn about the To hear the correct pronunciation of high- main features of Speak English! by lighted words on the Word List and in the reading its Introduction. Here’s how. lessons and games, all you have to do is press the key. -
Page 10: Recording And Hearing Your Voice
Recording and Hearing Hearing Correct Your Voice Pronunciations Perfecting your pronunciation of En- About the Word List glish words takes practice. With your The words on the Word List are Speak English! , you can record your representative of the different own voice and then play it back to hear vowel and consonant sounds used your progress. -
Page 11: Comparing Pronunciations
Comparing Pronunciations Showing Pronunciations For comparison, you can hear your You can see both the phonetic spelling of pronunciation of a word followed by its a highlighted word and a picture showing correct pronunciation. It is as simple as how the sounds of that highlighted word pressing a key. - Page 12 Showing Pronunciations Showing Pronunciations 11. Press and use ENTER read a lesson about con- trasting similar sounds. 12. Press twice to go back to 6. When is on the BACK the original phonetic analysis. screen, press to see a ENTER moving picture.
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Page 13: Hearing Spellings
Hearing Spellings Hearing Spellings Here’s how to hear words spelled Another Way to Hear Spellings aloud. To read the lesson about spelling 1. Press CLEAR words aloud, first highlight Let’s 2. Hold and press Talk! from the Outline menu and press to select it. -
Page 14: Using The Lessons
Using the Lessons Using the Lessons 5. Use to highlight a lesson and You can work on perfecting your En- press . For example, select glish pronunciation by using the les- ENTER /p/ as in “pat.” sons in Speak English! The lessons are located on the Outline menu. -
Page 15: Playing The Games
Playing the Games Playing the Games You can play three fun games that test Press to hear the word again as HEAR your mastery of English pronuncia- many times as you like. When you tions. Here’s how to play. think you know what word is being said, press to see if you are cor- ENTER... -
Page 16: Sending Words Between Books
Sending Words Between Books Resetting BOOKMAN This BOOKMAN book can send words If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to re- to certain other BOOKMAN books. spond, or if its screen performs errati- cally, first press and then press To send a word, you must first install a CLEAR twice. -
Page 17: Limited Warranty (U.s. Only)
BOOKMAN PRODUCT will run uninterrupted or error free. You assume all risk of any damage or loss from your use of the BOOKMAN PRODUCT. This warranty does not apply if, in the sole discretion of FRANKLIN, the FCC Notice: Complies with the lim-... - Page 18 Index Name That Picture 14 Auto-resume feature 9 Numbers, typing 3, 12 Batteries Outline menu 14 installing 5 Picture bar 11 replacing 5 Record (SPACE) key 9, 14 Blue (SHOW) key 3, 10, 11 Recording your voice 9 Book cards Red (HEAR) key 3, 8, 10, 14 installing 5 Replacing batteries 5...
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