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ECTACO Partner C-4ER ® ® English Russian Professional Talking Electronic Dictionary & eBook USER MANUAL ECTACO Partner C-4ER ® ® Англо-русский и русско-английский профессиональный говорящий электронный словарь и электронная книга РУКОВОДСТВО ПО ЭКСПЛУАТАЦИИ...
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User Manual ® ® Ectaco, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any damage or loss resulting from the use of this manual. Ectaco, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any loss or claims by third parties, which may arise through the use of this product.
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® CONTENTS INTRODUCTION..................5 General View ..................6 Power Supply..................6 SD card....................7 Initialization ................... 7 Keyboard ....................7 Display ....................9 Main Menu ..................10 Context Menu ..................10 DICTIONARIES..................11 English Russian Dictionary .............
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ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® Speech settings .................. 27 Slang lock ................... 27 Time settings ..................27 System settings .................. 28...
INTRODUCTION Congratulations on purchasing ECTACO Partner C-4ER! This product is the ® ® result of the combined efforts of Ectaco's linguists, engineers, and programmers, and represents the last generation of the highest-performance integrated linguistic systems available. ECTACO Partner C-4ER features: ®...
ECTACO Partner products, some ® characteristics of the device you have purchased may slightly differ from their description in this manual. General View The general view and external features of ECTACO Partner C-4ER are shown ® ® below.
ECTACO Partner C-4ER is equipped with a jack for external power supply. ® ® Only a special charger may be used with your ECTACO Partner C-4ER. ® ® Use of an inappropriate external power supply may cause failure of the device and will void the warranty.
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ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® ECTACO Partner C-4ER has standard and phonetic modes of entering ® ® Russian letters. Russian standard mode allows you to enter Russian letters corresponding to the keyboard marks. Russian phonetic mode allows you to enter Russian letters by their phonetic consonance with English letters, e.g.
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® SHIFT+ Page Up SHIFT+ Page Down Other shortcut keys open sections or applications corresponding to the marks on the keys (press SHIFT+ shortcut key; for example, SHIFT+DICT). Control and edit keys Move cursor / move highlight up / switch Main Menu / scroll...
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® Slang lock is on The card is in the SD-slot The number of reverse translations performed More contents available Beginning or end of list / scrolling unavailable Horizontal scrolling enabled Vertical scrolling enabled...
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® • to scroll through the menu items. • Press Enter to perform the corresponding action. The Context Menu is also available from within the Search window (where applicable) – just press • To close the Context Menu, press ESC.
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ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® You can listen to the pronunciation of any headword in the list – just highlight it and then press • When the desired word is highlighted, press Enter to see its translation(s). •...
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® • To obtain explanation of the English headword, select Explain in WordNet in the Context Menu. To enter additional symbols: select Enter additional symbols in the Context Menu; , and to highlight the desired symbol;...
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ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® You can listen to the pronunciation of any word in the list. Just highlight the desired word and then press • Select the desired word and then press Enter. If the spell-checker is unable to suggest alternative words, the No variants message will appear.
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ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® verb глаг. – verb Russian nouns are marked with gender and number labels. ж.р. – feminine м.р. – masculine ср.р. – neuter мн.ч. – plural м. и ж.р. – common gender Certain words and expressions in the Dictionary are marked with the following abbreviations: anat.
вулг. – vulgarism полит. – political If the translation you are currently viewing is a term, you will also see the name of the corresponding specialized dictionary. Reverse Translation For your convenience, ECTACO Partner C-4ER provides Instant Reverse ® ®...
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® You can make up to 10 reverse translations in succession (without closing windows). The current number of the reverse translations performed is shown at the bottom of the right-hand display. • Press any letter key to return to the Search window.
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® You can listen to the pronunciation of any topic or subtopic title – just highlight it and then press • Select a subtopic. Press Enter to see the phrases. When viewing phrases: to scroll through the phrases;...
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® • To listen to the pronunciation of the idiom or its translation, highlight the desired item by using , and then press • to scroll through the entries. Alternatively, use SHIFT+ SHIFT+ ,...
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ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® The face of a card shows the source word translation/definition, and the reverse side shows the source word. The player browses the cards and, whenever necessary, uses a hint. The goal is to learn all cards in the set. You will be prompted to proceed to the next set once you have finished the current one.
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® use the Select another set option; select Explain in WordNet to look up the source word in the WordNet Dictionary; use the Show synonyms and Show samples options (available for the SAT 200 vocabulary).
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® The number of won and lost games is shown on the left-hand display. • To reset statistics, use the Context Menu. • Press ESC to start a new game. SAT 200 This application includes two hundred keywords with transcription, explanation, synonyms, and samples selected from the SAT vocabulary.
, or and then press Enter. • To delete the last digit, press SHIFT+ . Metric Conversion With ECTACO ® Partner ® C-4ER you may easily convert measurements from the British-American system into the metric system commonly used in Europe and vice versa, as well as convert within each system.
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® • Choose a category by pressing . Press Enter. • Input the value. Currency Conversion The Currency Conversion function allows you to instantly calculate conversion values between twelve pre-installed currencies and three user-defined currencies.
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® • Select the desired chapter by using . Press Enter. • Use and to switch between questions in the current chapter. • To display or hide the answer, press Enter. No answers are available for some questions; for example, the names of current government officials.
(if applicable). Then press Enter to confirm your choice. • Press ESC to return to the list of subsections. Set language Use this subsection to switch the interface language between English and Russian. The default interface language of ECTACO Partner C-4ER is English. ® ®...
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® Speech settings Use the Speech settings to adjust the Volume, Speech frequency and Speech speed, shaping your own pronunciation style. • Select the desired option and then press Enter. • Use , to adjust the levels of each option.
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® or Enter to move the highlight; , or the numeric keys to change values. • Specify the current date and time. • Use the "A" and "P" keys to specify AM and PM, respectively.
ECTACO Partner C-4ER User Manual ® ® Set sleep time The automatic power off has a preset delay of 3 minutes. This feature saves battery life by shutting down the device after a specified period of inactivity. The adjustable range is from 1 to 5 minutes.
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