® ™ Electronic Publishers Deutsch/Englisch Professor Electronic Publishers User’s Guide DBD-440
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Contents words, view their inflections with examples, correct misspellings, save words to your User list, and play fun, educational word games that will help you learn German. To learn how to use other books, read their User’s Guides. 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 German/English Dictionary you can translate more than 200,000 Installing Batteries ....................................
Key Guide Function Keys CLEAR Clears to an entry screen. MENÜ Shows the main menus. FLEKT (red) Other Keys Backs up, erases letters, or stops a highlight. ZURÜCK Shifts keys to type capitals. Shows inflections. Enters a search, selects a menu item, or starts a highlight. EINGABE E/D (green) Switches languages. SPIEL (yellow) Shows the games menu. LISTE (blue) Shows the User list menu. KARTE AN/AUS Shows help messages. HILFE Types a space or pages down. ? ✽ Exits the selected book.
Installing Batteries Installing Book Cards BOOKMAN model 440 uses two CR2032 lithium batteries. Here is how to install or replace them. Warning: When the batteries lose power or are removed from BOOKMAN, information that you entered in its built-in book, and in an installed book card, will be erased. 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 BOOKMAN over. 2.
Selecting Books Using the Color Keys Once you have installed a book card in your BOOKMAN, you must select which book you want to use. The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on your BOOKMAN change functions according to which book is selected. 1. Turn BOOKMAN on. 2. Press KARTE . 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.
Changing Settings Viewing a Demonstration You can adjust the font size, shutoff time, and screen contrast. The font size changes the number of lines of text that appear on screen. The shutoff time is how long BOOKMAN stays on if you forget to turn it off. Before you start using this book, you can view a demonstration of what it can do. The demonstration automatically appears the first time that you select it. If you want to stop the demonstration, press CLEAR .
▼ Changing the Language Beginner Tips Message Language The message language is the language of prompts, help and other messages. NOTE: For examples in the English half of this manual, the message language is English. ▼ 1. If not at menus, press MEN Ü . 2. Highlight Message Language from the Other menu. 3. Press EINGABE . ➤ A Faster Way to Change Languages At the main menus press E/D . Pressing E/D changes the message language at the menus and help, or changes the entry language at the entry screen.
Finding Words Finding Phrases The simplest way to translate or define a word is to enter it at an entry screen. You do not need to type accents or capital letters. This product also contains many phrases. You can find phrases simply by entering a single word from a phrase. 1. At the German entry screen, type a German word (e.g., geld). 1. Select German Phrases from the Topics menu. 2. Type a word in a German phrase (e.g., noch). To erase a letter, press 2. Press EINGABE ZURÜCK . . 3. Press 3.
Finding Inflections Advanced Tips This dictionary includes extensive inflections of nouns, verbs, modifiers, and other words. ➤ Viewing Complete Menu Items The words and phrases followed by ellipses are too long to fit onto one line. At any highlighted menu item, press ? ✻ to view the whole item. 1. At the German entry screen, type a German word (e.g., schwimmen). 2. Press FLEKT . ➤ Umlauting & Capitalizing German Letters You don’t need to type umlauts at entry screens.
Highlighting Words Finding Spellings To learn more about a word appearing in a definition, you can highlight the word and find its definition(s) and inflections. If you’re not sure how to spell a word, type a question mark in place of each unknown letter or an asterisk in place of a series of unknown letters. 1. At the German entry screen, type a German word (e.g., frei). 2. Press EINGABE . 3. Press EINGABE again to start the highlight. 1. At the German entry screen type a word with ?’s and a ✽ (e.g.
Using the User List 1. At an entry screen or dictionary menu, type a German word (e.g., bild). 2. Press LISTE . 3. Press EINGABE to add bild. Note that this word was added to your German word list. 4. Press CLEAR . ➤ Adding Highlighted Words You can also add words to your personal word lists from definitions, correction lists, and MatchMaker lists. Highlight a word and then press LISTE . 28 ▼ Viewing Your List 1. Press LISTE . 2. Press EINGABE to view the list. 3. Highlight a word on the list.
Playing the Games Playing the Games To set the difficulty of the games, first press SPIEL , and then select Game Settings from the games menu. Next select a word list, skill level, inflections or no inflections, and a language. Hangman Hangman challenges you to guess a mystery word, indicated by ?’s, one letter at a time. As you type letters, your correct guesses appear in place of the question marks and your wrong guesses appear below (#).
Playing the Games Playing the Games NOTE: These two games test your knowledge of German words only. Flashcards Flashcards flashes words for you to define or study. To view the definitions of the word, press EINGABE . Then press ZURÜCK to return to Flashcards and try another word. Gender Tutor™ Gender Tutor asks you to guess the gender of German nouns. Type m for masculine, f for feminine, or n for neuter. But hurry! There is a time limit set by the skill level.
Sending Words Between Books Resetting BOOKMAN This BOOKMAN dictionary can send words to and receive words from certain other BOOKMAN books. To send a word, you must first install a book card in your BOOKMAN, and that book card must be able to send or receive words. To learn if a book card can send or receive words, read its User’s Guide. If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to respond, or if its screen performs erratically, first press CLEAR and then press AN/AUS twice.
Limited Warranty (US only) Book Card Care • Do not touch the metal contacts on the book cards. Caution: Touching these electrical contacts with statically charged objects, including your fingers, could erase information entered in a book card or built-in book. • Do not put excessive pressure on the book cards. LBS. • Do not expose the book cards to heat, cold, or liquids.
Notes Copyrights & Patents Model: DBD-440 • batteries: 2 CR2032, 3-volt lithium • size: 12 x 1.4 x 8.3 cm • weight: 3.5 oz. (without batteries) © 1997 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 USA. All rights reserved. © 1988 William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. BOOKMAN is a trademark of Sherwin M. Borsuk. Used under license. FCC Notice: Complies with the limits for a Class B computing device pursuant to Subpart B of part 15 of FCC Rules.
® ™ Electronic Publishers Deutsch/Englisch Professor Electronic Publishers User’s Guide DBD-440
