® BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD ® Spanish Master/ Maestro Ingles ´ TM USER'S GUIDE MANUAL DEL USUARIO DBE-2020 License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK 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 ELECTRONIC BOOK AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK means the software product, hardware, and documentation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. LIMITED USE LICENSE All rights in the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK remain the property of FRANKLIN. Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive license to use the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK on a single FRANKLIN BOOKMAN at a time. 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This license terminates immediately without notice from FRANKLIN if you fail to comply with any provision of this license. 1 Contents Introduction ..................................................................... 4 Installing Book Cards ....................................................... 4 Selecting a Book .............................................................. 5 Using the Color Keys ........................................................ 5 Changing the Language .................................................... 6 Viewing a Demonstration ................................................. 7 Translating English Words ................................................ 7 Translating Spanish Words ............................................... 8 Highlighting a Word .......................................................... 9 Learning Inflections .......................................................... 9 Finding a Letter in a Word .............................................. 10 Finding a Series of Letters .............................................. 11 Correcting Misspellings .................................................. 11 Using Your Personal List ................................................ 12 Sending a Word Between Books ..................................... 13 Changing Game Settings ................................................ 14 Playing the Games .......................................................... 14 Book Card Care ............................................................. 18 Copyrights and Patents .................................................. 18 2 Key Guide Function Keys CLEAR Other Keys BACK Clears to the Ready screen. Shows Additional Functions menu. (red) Show inflections of a word. (green) Switches between English MENU Backs up, erases letters, or stops a highlight. Shifts keys to type punctuation. Enters a search, selects a menu item, or starts a highlight. Shows help messages. Types a space or pages down. Types a ? to stand for an unknown letter in a word; shifted, types an V to stand for a series of unknown letters. Direction Keys Move in indicated direction. CAP ENTER INFL LANG and Spanish entry languages. HELP GAMES (yellow) (blue) Shows the games list. SPACE ?V LIST Shows Personal list menu. CARD Exits the selected book. Turns BOOKMAN on or off. ON/OFF ® Understanding the Color Keys The color keys (red, green, yellow, and blue) perform the functions listed above only for the BOOKMAN book 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." Star Key Combinations* + 6+ 6 6 6 CARD DN + UP +N Sends a word between books. Shows the next word or inflection group. Shows the previous word or inflection group. Types an ñ. *Hold 6 while pressing the other key. 3 Introduction Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN! BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable electronic reference with a built-in book and a slot in the back for more books. With this Spanish Master, 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, 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. 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. ® 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. ® 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. 4 Selecting a Book Once you have installed a book card in your BOOKMAN, you can then select which book you want to use. 1. Turn your BOOKMAN on. 2. Press CARD . Using the Color Keys The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on your BOOKMAN change functions according 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. These are sample books. ® 3. Press or to highlight the book you want to use. 4. Press ENTER to select it. ® 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. Remember, the color keys for BOOKMAN books in book cards function as labelled on their book cards, not as on the keyboard. 5 Changing the Language w 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. 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. Press MENU 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 A to select Spanish. ® Typing Numbers To type numbers, hold number key. 6 w 1. If not at a menu screen, press CLEAR . 2. Press LANG to switch between dictionaries. and press a ® Changing the Contrast If you want to change the screen contrast, repeatedly press or the blank ready screen. at 6 Viewing a Demonstration Before you start using your new BOOKMAN, you may want to see a brief demonstration of what it can do. When a book card is installed in your BOOKMAN, press MENU . Then use the arrow keys to highlight the Additional Functions menu. Then select View Demo. When no book card is installed in your BOOKMAN, the demonstration will automatically appear after you turn the unit on. To stop the demonstration, press CLEAR . To disable it, press MENU , and use the arrow keys to highlight the Additional Functions menu. Highlight Disable Demo and press ENTER . To re-enable it, select Enable Demo from the Additional Functions menu. ® Help is Always at Hand 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. ® 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 You can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing HELP . Spanish nouns are different than English Press the direction keys to read it. To nouns in that they must either be exit help, press BACK . masculine or feminine. The means that the word listed (e.g., hombre) is To read a tutorial of how to use the main masculine. Likewise an would show functions and keys of this book, select the word to be feminine. Tutorial from the Additional Functions menu. 7 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 ENTER . Translating Spanish Words 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., e) and press repeatedly until the accent you want appears. If you want to type a ñ, then hold 6 and press N. 3. Press ENTER . In addition to "mensaje", the Spanish Master translates words with similar meanings such as "verse" . To view more press . 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 example, if you are talking about a chess man, you would use the word "pieza" instead of "hombre". 4. Press CLEAR when done. 8 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 highlighted word, the entry language changes to the language of the word for which you searched. 1. At any text, press the highlight. ENTER Learning Inflections Inflections show changes in a word's meaning or function. This dictionary includes 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 . to start You can turn the highlight off by pressing BACK . 2. Use the arrow keys to highlight a word. These are the principal forms of the verb beber. 4. Use the direction keys to read. 5. Press either INFL or hold 6 and press DN repeatedly to view more inflections. 3. Do one of the following: To... Press... ENTER define the word view inflections add words to Personal list INFL LIST If the word is a noun, an adjective, or another modifier, then there won't be any other inflections. 6. Press CLEAR when done. 9 Learning Inflections Finding a Letter in a Word 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., persona?e). ® Getting Grammar Guidance When viewing inflections, you can press HELP to view detailed descriptions 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 be, 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, imperfect indicative, preterite, future, conditional, present subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive 1, imperfect subjunctive 2, perfect indicative, pluperfect indicative, preterite anterior, future perfect, conditional perfect, perfect subjunctive, pluperfect subjunctive, and imperative. 2. Press ENTER . 3. Highlight a match. 4. Press ENTER to see the word's translation. ® 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. 10 Finding a Series of Letters To find words that begin with the same letters, type an asterisk after the letters. Asterisks stand for a series of letters. 1. Type a word end ...