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- Page 1 ™ Electronic Publishers French Professor/ ™ Professeur d’Anglais Speaking/parlant User’ s Guide/Mode d’emploi BFS-840...
- Page 2 ELECTRONIC BOOK contains Franklin’s confidential and propriety information which you agree to take adequate steps to protect from unauthorized disclosure or use. This license is effective until terminated. This license terminates immediately with- out notice from FRANKLIN if you fail to comply with any provision of this license.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
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 and define more than 250,000 words, cor- Installing Batteries &... -
Page 4: Key Guide
Function Keys Clears to the Ready screen. EFFAC Shows Additional Functions menu. MENU (red) Show inflections of a word. CONJ (green) Switches between English LANG and French entry languages. (yellow) Shows the games list. JEUX (blue) Says an English word. PARLE Exits the selected book. -
Page 5: Installing Batteries & Book Cards
Installing Batteries BOOKMAN model 840 uses four AAA batteries. Here is how to install or re- place them. Warning: When the batteries lose power or are removed from BOOKMAN, information that you entered in its built- in book, and in an installed book card, will be erased. -
Page 6: Selecting Books & Using The Color Keys
Selecting Books Once you have installed a book card in your BOOKMAN, you must select which book you want to use. 1. Turn BOOKMAN on. 2. Press CARTE These are sample books. 3. Press to highlight the book you want to use. 4. -
Page 7: Changing The Language
Changing the Message Language 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. -
Page 8: Viewing A Demonstration
Viewing a Demonstration When no book cartridge is installed in your BOOKMAN, a demonstration au- tomatically appears after you select this book. To stop the demo, press To disable it, press MENU lect Disable Demo . To re-enable it, se- lect Enable Demo . -
Page 9: Translating French Words
Translating English Words Understanding Definitions When you find a definition, you may see that there are several different 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. The capitalized words found in brack- ets indicate there's another category that this word could be used with. -
Page 10: Highlighting A Word
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. -
Page 11: Learning Inflections
Learning Inflections Inflections show changes in a word’s meaning or function. This dictionary in- cludes extensive inflections of nouns, verbs, modifiers, and other words. 1. Press to switch to the LANG French ready screen. 2. Type a French word (e.g., écrire). 3. -
Page 12: Finding A Letter
Finding a Letter If you are uncertain how to spell a word, type a question mark in place of each unknown letter. You can use more than one question mark per word; however, you will get a longer list of matches. 1. -
Page 13: Correcting Misspellings
Correcting Misspellings If you misspell a word in either language, the French Professor shows you a list of suggestions from which to choose in the selected language. 1. Type a misspelled word (e.g., chein). To erase a letter, press 2. Press ENTRER 3. - Page 14 Using your Personal List Adding Entered Words You can also add words to your Personal word list directly from the ready screen. Type the word you want to add to your word list. Press and select Word List , to go to the Personal list menu.
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Page 15: Sending A Word
Sending a Word This BOOKMAN dictionary can send words to and receive words from cer- tain other BOOKMAN books. To send a word, you must first install a cartridge in your BOOKMAN, and that cartridge must be able to send or receive words. -
Page 16: Playing The Games
Playing the Games Now that you have selected the settings for the games, let’s play them. 1. Press JEUX 2. Highlight a game using the arrow keys. You can also select a game by typing the letter in front of its name. 3. - Page 17 Playing the Games Word Auction ™ In Word Auction, you try to bid for all the letters of a mystery word, before your cash runs out. The amount of each bid depends on the frequency of the letter. All bids will cost you whether correct or incorrect.
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Page 18: Optional Features
Playing the Games Help in Games Press while you’re in a game if AIDE you need help. It will explain the game you are playing. To exit press Game Options After you finish a round, you can do the following: To... -
Page 19: Resetting Bookman
Cartridge Care • Do not touch the metal contacts on the cartridges. Caution: Touching these electrical contacts with statically charged objects, including your fingers, could erase in- formation entered in a cartridge or built- in book. • Do not put excessive pressure on the cartridges. - Page 20 FRANKLIN warrants to you that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your BOOKMAN PRODUCT, 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., One Franklin Plaza, Bulington, NJ 08016-4907, within...
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