Franklin BOOKMAN BQF-440 Manuel utilisateur

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Electronic Publishers

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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY

MAN

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French Professor™/

Professeur d’Anglais

USER’S GUIDE

MODE D’EMPLOI

BQF-440

3615 Franklinfo

1,27 F / minute

MINITEL

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Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!

BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec-

tronic library with a built-in book and a slot

in the back for more books. With this

French Professor

, you can now translate

anddefinemorethan200,000words,cor-

rect misspellings of both French and En-

glishwords,viewnoun,adjective,andverb

inflections, and save words to a Personal

wordlistforamoreenjoyablewaytolearn.

Tolearnhowtouseotherbooks,readtheir

User’s Guides.

Contents

Installing Batteries & Cards ........................................... 4

Selecting a Book ........................................................... 5

Using the Color Keys..................................................... 5

Changing the Language ................................................. 6

Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 7

Translating English Words ............................................. 7

Translating French Words .............................................. 8

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

Finding a Letter ............................................................. 10

Finding a Prefix ............................................................. 10

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

Using your Personal List................................................ 11

Highlighting a Word ....................................................... 13

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

Changing Game Settings ............................................... 14

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

➤ Understanding the Color Keys

The color keys (red, green, yellow, and

blue) perform the functions listed

above only for the BOOKMAN book

card described in this User’s Guide.

Other books have their own color key

functions, which are labelled on their

cards and listed in their User’s Guides.

For more information, read “Using the

Color Keys.”

Function Keys

EFFAC

Clears to the ready

screen.

ShowsAdditionalFunctionsmenu.

CONJ

(red) Show inflections of a word.

LANG

(green)

SwitchesbetweenEnglish

and French entry languages.

JEUX

(yellow) Shows the games list.

LISTE

(blue)ShowsPersonallistmenu.

CARTE

Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF

Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

Key Guide

Other Keys

ARR

Backs up, erases letters, or

stops a highlight.

MAJ

Shifts

? ✽

to type an asterisk.

ENTRER

Enters a search, selects a

menu item, or starts a highlight.

AIDE

Shows help messages.

ESPACE

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

Moves in indicated direction.

Star Key Combinations*

✩

CARTE

Sends a word between

books.

✩

+ BAS Shows the next word or

inflection group.

✩

+ HT Shows the previous word

or inflection group.

*Hold

✩

while pressing the other key.

➤ Removing Cards

Warning: When you remove a card

to install another, information that you

entered into the removed card will be

erased.

BOOKMANmodel440usestwolithium

CR-2032 batteries. Here is how to in-

stall or replace them.

Warning: When the batteries lose

powerorareremovedfromBOOKMAN,

information that you entered in its built-

in book, and in an installed card, will be

erased.

1. Turn BOOKMAN over.

2. Slide off its battery cover in

the direction of the triangle.

3. Install the batteries following

the diagram in the case.

4. Replace the battery cover.

Warning: Never install or remove a

card when BOOKMAN is on. If you do,

information that you entered in its built-

in book, and in an installed card, will be

erased.

1. Turn BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the tabs on the card

with the notches in the slot.

4. Press the card down until it

snaps into place.

Installing CardsInstalling 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.

➤ About Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this

User’s Guide may differ from what

you see on the actual screen. This

does not mean that your BOOK-

MAN is malfunctioning.

Once you have installed a card in your

BOOKMAN,youcanselectwhichbook

you want to use.

1. Turn BOOKMAN on.

2. Press

CARTE

These are sample books.

3. Press or to highlight the

book you want to use.

4. Press

ENTRER

to select it.

Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on

yourBOOKMANchangefunctionsaccord-

ing to which book is selected.

When the built-in book is selected, the

color keys function as labelled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. When a card

book is selected, the color keys func-

tion as labelled on that card.

Remember, the color keys for BOOK-

MANbooksincardsfunctionaslabelled

on their cards, not as on the keyboard.

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➤ Changing the Contrast

If you want to change the screen

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, French or

English.

1. If not at the Ready screen,

press

EFFAC

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 language. The message

language is the language of prompts,

help, and other messages. You can

change the message language 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

to select the Message

language screen.

3. Press

to select English as

the message language; press

to select French.

▼

Changing the Language

➤ Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at

virtually any screen by pressing

AIDE

. Press the direction keys to

read it. To exit help, press

ARR

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.

➤ Explanation of Genders

French nouns are different than

English nouns in that they must

either be masculine or feminine. The

<m> means that the word listed

(e.g.,

chat

) is masculine. Likewise

an <f> shows the word to be

feminine.

Translating English Words

With the

French Professor

you are able

totranslateEnglishwordstoFrenchsim-

ply by typing English words.

1. Press

EFFAC

2. Press

LANG

to change the

entry language to English, if

needed.

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

To erase a letter press

ARR

4. Press

ENTRER

5. Press

EFFAC

when finished.

Viewing a Demonstration

When no book card is installed in your

BOOKMAN,a demonstrationautomati-

cally appears after you select this book.

To stop the demo, press

EFFAC

. To dis-

able it, press

and then select

Dis-

able Demo

. To re-enable it, select

En-

able Demo

When a book card is installed, select

View Demo

from the menu to view the

demo.

➤ Understanding Definitions

Whenyoufindadefinition, you may see

thatthereareseveraldifferentmeanings

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.

Thecapitalizedwordsfoundinbrack-

etsindicatethere'sanothercategory

thatthiswordcouldbeusedwith.For

example, if you are talking about a

chess man, you would use the word

“piéce” instead of “homme”.

Translating English Words Translating French Words

Your French Professor is fully bilingual.

Try translating a French word.

1. Press

LANG

to change the

entry language from English

to French, if needed.

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

If you need to type an accent, type

the letter (e.g.,

) and press re-

peatedlyuntiltheaccentyouwantap-

pears.

3. Press

ENTRER

In addition to "poisson", the French

Professortranslateswordswithsimi-

larmeaningssuchas“lesPoissons”,

which means the astrological sign

Pisces. To view more press .

4. Press

EFFAC

when done.

➤ Getting Grammar Guidance

When viewing inflections, you can

press

AIDE

to view detailed descrip-

tions of how to use inflections, with

usage examples.

➤ Viewing English Inflections

If you are unfamiliar with inflections, it

may be helpful to look at some

inflected forms of English verbs.

Switch the entry language back to

English, type

, and press

CONJ

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

French Professor

has the follow-

ingverbforms:presentindicative,imper-

fectindicative,pastdefinite,future,con-

ditional, present subjunctive, imperfect

subjunctive,perfectindicative,pluperfect

indicative, preterite anterior, future per-

fect,conditionalperfect,perfectsubjunc-

tive, pluperfect subjunctive, imperative,

and the present participle.

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

LANG

to switch to the

French ready screen.

Type a French word (e.g., écrire).

3. Press

CONJ

These are the principal forms of the

verb

écrire

4. Press either

CONJ

or hold

✩

and press BAS repeatedly to

view more inflections.

If the word is a noun, an adjective, or

anothermodifier,thentherewon’tbe

any other inflections.

5. Use the direction keys to read.

6. Press

EFFAC

when done.

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