Franklin BQF-2025 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD

MAN

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3615 Franklinfo

1,29 F / minute

MINITEL

French Professor /

Professeur d’Anglais

USER’S GUIDE • MODE D’EMPLOI

BQF-2025

™

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Contents

Installing Book Cards & Selecting Books ....................... 4

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

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

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

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

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

Learning Inflections ....................................................... 8

Finding a Letter ............................................................. 9

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

Correcting Misspellings ................................................. 10

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

Highlighting Words ........................................................ 12

Sending Words .............................................................. 13

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

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

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-

rect misspellings of both French and En-

glish words, view noun, adjective, and verb

inflections, and save words to a Personal

word list for a more enjoyable way to learn.

To learn how to use other books, read their

User’s Guides.

Function Keys

EFFAC

Clears to the Ready

screen.

Shows Additional Functions menu.

CONJ

(red) Show inflections of a word.

LANG

(green) Switches between English

and French entry languages.

JEUX

(yellow) Shows the games list.

LISTE

(blue) ShowsPersonal list menu.

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 keys to type punctuation.

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

Move 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.

➤ 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

book cards and listed in their User’s

Guides. For more information, read

“Using the Color Keys.”

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card while your BOOKMAN is

turned on. If you do, information that you

entered in its built-in book, and in an in-

stalled book card, will be erased.

1. Turn BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn BOOKMAN over.

Align the tabs on the book card

with the notches in the slot.

4. Press the book card down

until it snaps into place.

Installing Book Cards

➤ Removing Book Card

Warning: When you remove a

book card to install another,

information that you entered into the

removed book card will be erased.

Selecting Books

➤ 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 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 or to highlight the

book you want to use.

4. Press

ENTRER

to select it.

Using the Color Keys

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on

your BOOKMAN change functions accord-

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 book

card is selected, the color keys function

as labelled on that book card.

Remember, the color keys for BOOK-

MAN books in book cards function as

labelled on their book cards, not as on

the keyboard.

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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.

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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.

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➤ Changing the Contrast

If you want to change the screen

contrast, repeatedly press or at

the blank ready screen.

Viewing a Demonstration

➤ 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.

When no book card is installed in your

BOOKMAN, a demonstration automati-

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.

Changing the Language

Translating English Words

With the French Professor you are able

to translate English words to French sim-

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.

➤ 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> would show the word to be

feminine.

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. For

example, if you are talking about a

chess man, you would use the word

“piéce” instead of “homme”.

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-

peatedly until the accent you want ap-

pears. If you want to type a

ç,

then

hold

✩

and press

3. Press

ENTRER

In addition to "poisson", the French

Professor translates words with simi-

lar meanings such as “les Poissons”,

which means the astrological sign

Pisces. To view more press .

4. Press

EFFAC

when done.

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. Use the direction keys to read.

5. Press either

CONJ

or hold

✩

and press BAS 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

EFFAC

when done.

Learning Inflections

➤ 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-

ing verb forms: present indicative, im-

perfect indicative, past definite, future,

conditional, present subjunctive, im-

perfect subjunctive, perfect indicative,

pluperfect indicative, preterite anterior,

future perfect, conditional perfect,

perfect subjunctive, pluperfect sub-

junctive, imperative, and the present

participle.

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. Type a word with ?’s (e.g.,

port?).

2. Press

ENTRER

3. Highlight a match.

4. Press

ENTRER

to see the word’s

translation.

Finding a Letter

➤Deeper Correction

If you select

Deeper correction

from a

correction list, you will get a longer list

of more detailed corrections than the

previous list.

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