Franklin BOOKMAN BES-840 Manual de usuario

Contents

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!

BOOKMANisapowerful,portableelectronic

referencewith a built-inbook and aslot in the

backformorebooks.Withthis

SpanishMas-

ter

, you can now translate and define more

than 250,000 words, correct misspellings of

both Spanish and English words, view noun,

adjective,and verb inflections,save words to

aPersonalword list for amoreenjoyable way

to learn, and hear words in both English and

Spanish. To learn how to use other books,

read their User’s Guides.

Installing Batteries ...............................................................3

Installing Book Cards ...........................................................3

Selecting Books ...................................................................4

Using the Color Keys............................................................4

Changing the Language ........................................................5

Viewing a Demonstration .....................................................6

Translating English Words ....................................................6

Translating Spanish Words ...................................................7

Highlighting a Word ..............................................................8

Hearing a Word ....................................................................8

Learning Inflections..............................................................9

Finding a Letter in a Word ....................................................10

Finding a Series of Letters ...................................................10

Correcting Misspellings .......................................................11

Using Your Personal List ......................................................11

Sending a Word Between Books...........................................13

Changing Game Settings ......................................................13

Playing the Games ...............................................................14

Optional Features.................................................................16

Function Keys

CLEAR

Clears to the Ready

screen.

Shows Additional Functions menu.

INFL

(red) Show inflections of a word.

LANG

(green) Switches between English

and Spanish entry languages.

GAMES

(yellow) Shows the games list.

SAY

(blue) Says a word

CARD

Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF

Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

Key Guide

Other Keys

BACK

Backs up, erases letters, or

stops a highlight.

CAP

Shifts keys to type punctuation.

ENTER

Enters a search, selects a

menu item, or starts a highlight.

HELP

Shows help messages.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

? ✽

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*

✩

CARD

Sends a word between books.

✩

Shows the next word or

inflection group.

✩

Shows the previous word

or inflection group.

✩

LGoes to Personal word list.

✩

+ NTypes an

➤

Understanding the Color Keys

The color keys (red, green, yellow, and

blue) perform the functions listed above

only for the BOOKMAN book de-

scribed in this User’s Guide.

Other books have their own color key

functions,which are labelledon their book

cardsand listed in their User’sGuides.For

more information, read “Using the Color

Keys.” *Hold

✩

while pressing the other key.

Installing Book Cards

Warning: Never install or remove a book

card when BOOKMAN is on. If you do,

information that you entered in its built-in

book, and in an installed 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

Warning: When you remove a book

card to install another, information that

you entered into the removed book

card will be erased.

Your 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, informa-

tion that you entered in its built-in book,

and in an installed cartridge, will be erased.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN over.

2. Slide off its battery cover in

the direction of the triangle.

3. Install the batteries as shown in

the battery compartment.

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.

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on

your BOOKMAN change functions ac-

cording to which book is selected.

When the built-in book is selected, the

color keys function as labelled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book card

book is selected, the color keys function

as labelled on that book card.

Using the Color Keys

Once you have installed a book card in

your BOOKMAN, you can select which

book you want to use.

1. Turn BOOKMAN on.

2. Press

CARD

These are sample books.

3. Press or to highlight the

book you want to use.

4. Press

ENTER

to select it.

Selecting Books

Remember, the color keys for BOOKMAN

books in book cards function as labelled

on their book cards, not as on the key-

board.



➤

About Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this User’s

Guide may differ from what you see on

screen. This does not mean that your

BOOKMAN is malfunctioning.

➤

Typing Numbers

To type numbers, hold

✩

and press a

number key.

➤

Changing the Contrast

Ifyouwant to changethescreen contrast,

repeatedly press or at the blank

ready screen.

Entry Language

The entry language is the language in

which you enter words at ready screens.

This determines which dictionary you will

use, Spanish or English.

1. If not at a menu screen, press

CLEAR

Press

LANG

to switch between

dictionaries.

▼

Changing the Language

Message Language

When you turn on this product for the first

time, you must choose the message lan-

guage. The message language is the lan-

guage of prompts, help, and other mes-

sages. You can change the message lan-

guage after your initial decision.

Note: The examples in the English half of

this manual use English as the message

language.

1. Press

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 Ato

select Spanish.

Changing the Language

▼

Translating English Words

With this

Spanish Master

, you are able to

translate English words to Spanish simply

by typing English words.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press

LANG

to change the entry

language to English, if needed.

3. Type a word (e.g., cat).

To erase a letter press

BACK

4. Press

ENTER

5. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Before you start using this book, you may

want to view a demonstration of what it

can do.

Ifnobookcard is installed, thedemonstration

automatically appears the first time that you

turn on your BOOKMAN. To stop the dem-

onstration, press

CLEAR

. To disable it, press

and then select

Disable Demo

If a book card is installed in your BOOK-

MAN, select

View Demo

from the Addi-

tional Functions menu to view the demon-

stration.

Viewing a Demonstration

➤

Explanation of Genders

Spanish nouns are different than En-

glish nouns in that they must either be

masculine or feminine. The <m> means

that the word listed (e.g.,

hombre

) is

masculine. Likewise an <f> shows the

word to be feminine.

➤

Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at virtu-

ally any screen by pressing

HELP

Press the direction keys to read it. To

exit help, press

BACK

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.

TranslatingSpanishWords

Translating English Words

➤

Understanding Definitions

When you find a definition, you may see

that there are several different mean-

ings for your word. Here is an example.

1. Type man.

2. Press

ENTER

This screen shows that “hombre” is

the most common use of the word.

The capitalized words found in brackets

indicate there's another category that

this word could be used with. For ex-

ample, if you are talking about a chess

man, you would use the word “pieza”

instead of “hombre.”

Your

Spanish Master

is fully bilingual. Try

translating a Spanish word.

1. Press

LANG

to change the Entry

language from English to

Spanish, if needed.

2. Type a word (e.g., mensaje).

If you need to type an accent, type the

letter (e.g.,

) and press repeatedly

until the accent you want appears. If

you want to type a

ñ,

then hold

✩

and

press

3. Press

ENTER

In addition to "mensaje," the

Spanish

Master

translates words with similar

meanings such as “verse.” To view

more, press .

4. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Highlighting a Word

You can look up most words by highlighting

them within dictionary definitions. You can

then find their definitions, translations, and

synonyms. Note: By searching for a high-

lighted word, the entry language changes to

the language of the word for which you

searched.

1. At any text, press

ENTER

to start

the highlight.

You can turn the highlight off by press-

ing

BACK

2. Use the arrow keys to highlight

a word.

3. Do one of the following:

To... Press...

define the word

ENTER

view inflections

INFL

hear a word pronounced

SAY

You can hear a word pronounced at the

Ready screen, in text, or in a list. Note:

You can only hear words if you have a

speaking BOOKMAN unit.

Hearing Words at the Ready screen

Type a word at the Ready screen.

2. Press

SAY

Hearing Words in Text

1. Go to a definition.

2. Press

SAY

The headword is pronounced.

3. Press

ENTER

to start the highlight.

4. Use the arrow keys to highlight a

word.

5. Press

SAY

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

SAY

to hear the word.

Hearing a Word

▼

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

LANG

to switch to the

Spanish ready screen.

2. Type a Spanish word (e.g., beber).

3. Press

INFL

These are the principal forms of the

verb

beber

4. Use the direction keys to read.

5. Press

INFL

or hold

✩

and press

repeatedly to view more

inflections.

If the word is a noun, an adjective, or

another modifier, then there won’t be

any other inflections.

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Learning Inflections

➤

Getting Grammar Guidance

When viewing inflections, you can press

HELP

toviewdetaileddescriptionsofhow

to use inflections, with usage examples.

➤

Viewing English Inflections

Ifyou areunfamiliar with inflections, it may

be helpful to look at some inflected forms

of English verbs. Switch the entry lan-

guageback to English, type

,and press

INFL

to see the different forms of the

English verb “to be.” This will give you a

good idea of each inflection form.

➤

Verb Inflection Forms

Your Spanish Master has the following

verb forms: present indicative, imper-

fect indicative, preterite, future, condi-

tional, present subjunctive, imperfect

subjunctive 1, imperfect subjunctive 2,

perfect indicative, pluperfect indicative,

preterite anterior, future perfect, condi-

tional perfect, perfect subjunctive, plu-

perfect subjunctive, and imperative.

If you are uncertain how to spell a word,

type a question mark in place of each un-

known letter. You can use more than one

question mark per word, however, you will

get a longer list of matches.

1. Type a word with ?’s (e.g.,

persona?e).

2. Press

ENTER

3. Highlight a match.

4. Press

ENTER

to see the word’s

translation.

Finding a Letter in a Word

➤

Deeper Correction

Ifyouselect

Deepercorrection

fromacor-

rectionlist,youwillgetalongerlistofmore

detailed corrections than the previous list.

Finding a Series of Letters

To find words that begin with the same let-

ters, type an asterisk after the letters. An

asterisk stands for a series of letters.

1. Type a word ending with an ✻

(e.g., manz

✻

To type an asterisk, hold

CAP

and

press

? ✽

2. Press

ENTER

3. Highlight a match.

4. Press

ENTER

to see the Spanish

translation.

5. Press

CLEAR

when done.

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