Franklin IC-159 User manual

User’s Manual

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For Use with the Franklin

Digital Book System®

DIGITAL BOOK

OXFORD

ENGLISH/ARABIC

STUDENT’S

SPEAKING

DICTIONARY

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Electronic Publishers

IC-159

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Electronic Publishers

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Contents

Key Guide ..................................................... 4

Installing the Digital Book.............................. 6

Changing the Language................................ 7

Viewing a Demonstration .............................. 8

Looking up English Words ............................ 9

Hearing English Words ................................. 11

TranslatingArabic Words .............................. 13

Finding Phrases ............................................ 14

Finding English Inflections ............................ 15

Finding English Spellings .............................. 16

Highlighting Words in Definitions .................. 17

Playing the Games........................................ 18

Sending Words Between Books.................... 20

Digital Book System®.................................... 21

Specifications ................................................ 23

Limited Warranty ........................................... 24

✓About the Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this User’s Manual

may vary slightly from what you see on screen.

These variations do not mean that this digital book

or your Digital Book System is malfunctioning.

Introduction

The

Oxford English/Arabic Student’s Speaking Dic-

tionary

digital book provides a powerful, portable

new way for speakers ofArabic to learn English.

Using this digital book, you can look up English defi-

nitions by entering eitherArabic or English words.

And you can view the menus and messages in either

Arabic or English.

Dictionary entries for English words include pronunci-

ation and grammatical information, multiple defini-

tions, and phrases showing how English words are

actually used.

In addition, you can actually hear the English words

in this dictionary pronounced aloud, as well as hear

English phrases and sentences.

You can also find the inflections of English words,

check and find English spellings, and play entertain-

ing games that build your knowledge of English.

✓Typing Arabic Characters

• This digital book can be used in any Digital Book

System. The Digital Book System model

DBS-2-AB has anArabic/English keyboard.

When using other Digital Book System models,

refer to the keyboard diagram in the Key Guide

of this manual to typeArabic characters.

• Keys not documented in the User’s Manual have

no effect in Digital Book System when you are

using this digital book.

Key Guide

Function Keys

CLEAR

Clear a search.

Display the main menus or Entry screen.

GAMES

Display the games to select.

Display English phrases containing a word.

LIST

Display the inflection of an English word.

SPEC

Hear an English word. (On the DBS-2D

keyboard,

SAY

performs the same

function).

CARD

Exit the digital book.

ON/OFF

Turn the Digital Book System on or off.

Key Guide

Other Keys

BACK

Back up, erase a letter, or stop the highlight.

ENTER

Enter a word or phrase, select a menu

item, or start the highlight in entries.

HELP

Display a help message.

SHIFT

Shift keys to type capital letters, etc.

SPACE

Type a space.

? *

At the Entry screen, type a question mark to

stand for a letter in word.At dictionary

entries, display the headword.

Direction Keys

Move in the indicated direction.

(At the Entry screen, accents a letter).

UP Page down or up.

SPACE

Page down in text.

Key Combinations*

or Go to the top or bottom of a menu,

entry, or list.

UP Display the next or previous entry,

phrase, or group of inflections.

CARD

Send a word to another digital book.

SHIFT

? *

At the Entry screen, type an asterisk to

stand for a series of letters in a word.

* Hold the first key while pressing the second.

Installing the Digital Book

You must install this digital book in the Digital Book

System before you can use and read it.

WARNING: Never install a digital book when the Dig-

ital Book System is on. If you do, information that you

have entered in any other installed digital book(s)

may be permanently erased.

1. Turn off the Digital Book System.

2. Install the digital book into a slot on the back.

3. Press

ON/OFF

4. Turn the wheel on the side of the Digital Book

System to adjust its screen contrast.

If the screen is still blank, check the batteries.

5. Press

CARD

6. Press or to highlight the appropriate

digital book icon.

The icon you see may vary.

7. Press

ENTER

✓Resuming Where You Left Off

While using this digital book, you can turn off the

Digital Book System at any time. When you turn

the Digital Book System on again, the screen that

you last viewed appears.

Changing the Language

You can use this digital book inArabic or in English.

When you select

English only

, menus, games, help

messages and other messages are in English.

NOTE: The examples in the English half of this Us-

er’s Manual use the

English only

mode.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press

to view the main menus.

3. Press the arrow keys to highlight the menu

at the far right.

4. Highlight

English only

5. Press

ENTER

to select it.

✓Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows at the bottom of the screen

show which arrow keys you can press to view

more menu items or text.

✓Learning English Phonetic Spellings

To learn about the phonetic spellings of English

words in this dictionary, select

Pron info

from the

Other menu. Then press to view the spellings.

Press

BACK

to return to the main menus.

Viewing a Demonstration

Before you start using this digital book, you may

want to view a demonstration of what it can do.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press

3. Highlight

Demo

on the Other menu.

4. Press

ENTER

to start the demonstration.

5. Press

CLEAR

to stop the demonstration.

✓Setting the Shutoff Time

The shutoff time is how long the Digital Book Sys-

tem stays on if you forget to turn it off. To change

the shutoff time, highlight

Set Shutoff

on the Other

menu and press

ENTER

. Then select a new time or

press

BACK

✓Help is at Hand

You can view a help message at most screens by

pressing

HELP

. Press or the DN key to read

the help. Press

BACK

to exit it. To learn what the

main key functions are, select

Overview

from the

Other menu.

Looking up English Words

The simplest way to find definition(s) of English words

and phrases is to enter them at the Entry screen.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type an English word or phrase.

To erase a letter, press

BACK

. You don’t need to

type capitals, accents, or spaces.

3. Press

ENTER

4. Press , the DN key, or

SPACE

to scroll down.

5. Hold and press the DN key to view the next

dictionary entry, alphabetically listed.

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

✓If You Misspell an English Word

When you enter a misspelled word at the Entry

screen, a list of corrections automatically appears.

Highlight a correction and then press

ENTER

. Cor-

rections also appear when you enter a correctly

spelled word not found in this digital book.

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