User manual FRANKLIN BFS-840

[. . . ] ® 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. Warning: When the batteries lose power or are removed from BOOKMAN, information that you entered in its builtin book, and in an installed book card, will be erased. ® Resuming Where You Left Off You can turn off BOOKMAN at any screen. [. . . ] 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 "pièce" instead of "homme". You can look up most words by highlighting them within dictionary definitions. NOTE: By searching for a highlighted word, the entry language changes to the language of the word for which you searched. You can hear any English word pronounced at the Ready screen, in text, or in a list. Hearing Words from the Ready Menu W You can turn the highlight off by pressing ARR . ENTRER define the word CONJ view inflections PARLE hear an English word 9 w Use the arrow keys to highlight a word. This dictionary includes extensive inflections of nouns, verbs, modifiers, and other words. ® Getting Grammar Guidance When viewing inflections, you can press AIDE 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 CONJ to see the different forms of the English verb "to be". ® Verb Inflection Forms Your French Professor has the following verb forms: present indicative, imperfect indicative, past definite, future, conditional, present subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive, perfect indicative, pluperfect indicative, preterite anterior, future perfect, conditional perfect, perfect subjunctive, pluperfect subjunctive, imperative, and the present participle. Press either CONJ or hold 6 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. 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. ® 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. If you misspell a word in either language, the French Professor shows you a list of suggestions from which to choose in the selected language. You can save up to 80 words total, for both English and French, in your Personal word list for personal study or review. The Personal word list is saved between sessions unless the batteries run out of power or your BOOKMAN is reset. Using your Personal List ® Adding Entered Words You can also add words to your Personal word list directly from the ready screen. ® Adding Highlighted Words You can also add words to your personal word lists from definitions, and correction lists. [. . . ] ® Help in Games Press AIDE while you're in a game if you need help. ® Game Options After you finish a round, you can do the following: To. ESPACE Play another round View the word's definition ENTRER ARR Play a different game EFFAC Go to the ready screen AC adaptor jack: Your BOOKMAN may be equipped with a standard 3. If your AC/DC adaptor does not have this symbol, confirm its compatibility at its place of purchase. [. . . ]