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BES-1840
Spanish Professor
Profesor de inglés
USER’S GUIDE / MANUAL DEL USUARIO
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Electronic Publishers
BOOKMAN II
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License Agreement ® READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN PROD- UCT. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN PRODUCT DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE BOOKMAN PRODUCT AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. BOOKMAN PRODUCT means the software product and documentation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. LIMITED
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Table of Contents Key Guide ................................................................................................... 4 Installing Batteries .................................................................................... 6 Changing the Language ............................................................................ 6 Using the Special Features ........................................................................ 7 Installing Book Cards .....................................
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Introduction Welcome to the world of Franklin. This Franklin model is a powerful, electronic reference with a built-in book, plus one slot in the back for a book card. With the speaking Spanish Professor, you can: • find over 2,500,000 translations, with comprehensive definitions, most of which contain parts of speech and usage examples; • conjugate words quickly and easily; • let state-of-the-art spell correction help you find the word you’re looking for; • hear the pronunciations of headwords,
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Key Guide Color Keys menu Displays the main menus for the dictionary. conj Conjugates a word. ?* At the Word Entry screen, lang Toggles the entry language types a ? to stand for a letter in between Spanish and English. a word. At a menu, displays a dict Goes to the dictionary. menu item. At a dictionary ™ learn Goes to the LEARNables entry, displays the headword. In menu. games, reveals the word and forfeits the game. Function Keys cap Turns the product on or off. Shifts to type capital letters
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Key Guide Combination Keys* Calculator/Converter Keys fn + At a dictionary entry, pages or up or down. a (1/x) Calculates a reciprocal. fn + At a dictionary entry, displays s (√ x) Calculates a square root. or the next or previous entry. 2 d (x ) Squares a number. cap + At a menu, goes to the first f (%) Calculates a percentage. or or last item. At a dictionary entry, goes to the start or end g (.) Inserts a decimal point. of the entry. z (+/-) Changes the number on the fn + Transfers a word bet
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Installing Batteries Changing the Language Your unit is powered by four AAA batteries. Message Language Follow these easy instructions to install or When you turn on this product for the first time, replace them. you must choose the message language. Press 1. Lift the battery cover on the a for English or press b for Spanish. top right of your unit by pushing up the tab. - - + AAA + AAA AAA AAA + _ AAA AAA The message language is the language of prompts, help, and other messages. You can change
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Using the Special Features s s s Headphone Jack A/C Adaptor Jack Volume Control Your unit is equipped with several special AC Adaptor Jack: The AC/DC features that many, but not all BOOK- adaptor is in the 9 volt range within a MAN book cards use. To learn if you can current range of 200 to 300 milliam- use the special features with a particular peres. – + book card, read its User’s Guide. This symbol indicates that the inner core Headphone Jack: The headphone of the plug of an AC adaptor is ne
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Installing Book Cards Selecting a Book Once a book card is installed in the product, you 1. Turn your unit off. can select which book you want to use. 2. Turn your unit over. 1. Turn your product on. 3. Align the tabs on the book card with card 2. Press . the notches in the slot. These are sample books. 3. Press or to highlight your 4. Press the book card down until it selection. snaps into place. Removing Book Cards Warning: Never install or remove a book card while your product is on
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Bookcard Color Keys Using the Main Menu menu The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on When you press , you will see ten icons. Use your product change functions according to these to quickly take you to different parts of your the book card you select. Their functions Spanish Professor. are labelled on individual cards. RED GREEN Understanding the Menu YELLOW Goes to the English-to-Spanish dictionary. BLUE Goes to the Spanish-to-English dictionary. ™ Goes to the LEARNables menu. Goes to
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Viewing a Demonstration Changing the Settings or Tutorial You can view a demonstration or tutorial of When using this dictionary, you can activate the this dictionary at any time. Learn a Word feature, or adjust the screen 1. Press menu . contrast, the shutoff time, the type size, and the message language. The shutoff time is how 2. Use the arrow keys to highlight long your product stays on if you forget to turn it and press enter . off. 1. Press menu in the dictionary, calculator, or converter
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Changing the Settings Translating Spanish Words Your Spanish Professor is fully bilingual. Try Learn a New Word translating a Spanish word. Your dictionary comes with a Learn a 1. Press lang to change the entry lan- Word feature to help you increase guage from English to Spanish, if your Spanish or English vocabulary. needed. Each time you turn your Spanish 2. Type a word (e.g., estudiar). Professor on, you can see a random To erase a letter, press back . To type ac- headword taken from the d
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Translating Spanish Words Translating English Words You can also use the Spanish Professor to Understanding Definitions translate English words into Spanish. Dictionary entries consist of headwords, 1. Press lang to change the entry parts of speech, the translation, and/or defi- language from Spanish to English, nitions. Other forms of the word may follow if needed. the headword. Capitalized words indicate the category for which the word is used. After 2. Type a word (e.g., read). the transla
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Translating English Words Finding Letters in Words If you are uncertain about how to spell a word, type Choosing Multiple Forms a question mark (?) in place of each unknown letter. Some words in this dictionary have To find prefixes, suffixes, and other parts of words, more than one form (e.g. sí, si). When type an asterisk (] ) in a word. Each asterisk stands the word you are looking up has for a series of letters. Note: If you type an asterisk multiple forms, the different forms at the begi
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Highlighting Words Hearing Words Another way to look up words is by highlighting The speaking Spanish Professor can them in dictionary entries or word lists. You can pronounce the words that appear on then find their definitions or phrases, hear them almost any screen - in definitions, spell pronounced, or add them to My Word List. correction lists, My Word List, and games. When you want to hear how a word is 1. At any text, press enter to start the pronounced, just highlight it and press say .
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™ Hearing Words Using LEARNables Using LEARNables, you can read cultural 4. Press say to hear the head- notes, test your spelling, improve your word pronounced. ® vocabulary, browse the TOEFL Test Word 5. Press to start the high- enter List, and get grammar guidance (see “Using light. the Grammar Guide” on page 17). Cultural Notes 1. Press menu , highlight and press enter . Or you can press learn . 2. Use to highlight Cultural Notes and press . enter 6. Move the highlight to a word You c
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™ Using LEARNables Using LEARNables from My Word List, My Speaking ish) which uses Spanish words from ® Spelling Bee (Spanish) which uses My Word List, or TOEFL Test Spanish words from My Word List, or Flashcards which uses words from ® ® TOEFL Test Speaking Spelling Bee the TOEFL Test Word List. ® which uses words from the TOEFL 3. Highlight the list you want and press Test Word List. enter . 3. Highlight the list you want and A word will be displayed on the screen for press . enter you to st
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Using the Grammar Guide Using the Grammar Guide Your Spanish Professor includes a From an Inflection Screen helpful grammar guide that describes 1. Press menu , highlight or , parts of speech. You can view it by and then press enter . selecting from the main menu or by 2. Type a word to conjugate (e.g., pressing learn . leer), and then press conj . ™ From the LEARNables Menu 3. Press fn + or repeatedly to find the tense you want to 1. Press menu . read about in the Grammar 2. Highlight and
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Advanced Verb Advanced Verb Conjugations Conjugations Conjugations show inflections, or 4. Press space or to scroll. changes in a word’s gender, tense, etc. Press ?* to display the root word. This dictionary includes extensive inflec- conj fn 5. Press either or hold and tions of nouns, verb, modifiers, and other press repeatedly to view more in- words. flections. From the Icon Menu If the word is a noun, an adjective, or another modifier, then there won’t be any other inflec- 1. For example,
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Advanced Verb Conjugations Advanced Verb Conjugations Read the definition to find the verb you want Accenting Letters (e.g., to know). You can look up accented words conj 4. Press to conjugate the head- without typing accents. If there are no word, saber. Multiple Forms, the Spanish Profes- sor will take you directly to the word. Highlight the part of speech you want (e.g., verb) and press . Then highlight the If there are Multiple Forms, you will enter have to choose the correct word from t
