Franklin LM-6000B User Manual

LM-6000b
Language
Master
USER’S GUIDE
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Contents
Congratulations on your pur­chase of the Language Master! With this dictionary you can find over 110,000 entries, hear dic­tionary words and entire defini­tions spoken with or without
the use of headphones, view thesaurus entries, study the Grammar Guide, correct mis­spellings, save words to the User List, and play fun, educa­tional word games.
Installing Batteries ....................................................... 4
Changing Settings ........................................................ 4
Viewing a Demonstration............................................ 5
Finding Definitions ...................................................... 5
Finding Words in Definitions ....................................... 7
Correcting Misspellings ............................................... 8
Finding Synonyms ........................................................ 8
Finding Classmates Finding Confusables
.................................................... 9
®
................................................. 10
Finding a Letter in a Word ......................................... 10
Finding a Series of Letters ......................................... 11
Highlighting Words .................................................... 11
Viewing the Grammar Guide ..................................... 12
Using the Phonics Key ................................................ 14
Using the User List ..................................................... 15
Splitting the User List ................................................ 17
Combining Lists .......................................................... 18
Playing the Games ..................................................... 19
Troubleshooting Guide .............................................. 24
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CLEAR
GAMES
GRAMMAR
LIST
MENU
ON/OFF
PHONICS
READ
SAY
SEARCH
BACK
ENTER
HELP
SHIFT
Key Guide
Function Keys
Goes to the Entry screen. Goes to the Games
menu. Goes to the Grammar
Guide. Goes to the User List
menu. In definitions and games, adds words to the User List.
Goes to the Setup menu. Turns Language Master
on or off. Pronounces and displays
individual sounds of a word.
Reads definitions. Speaks a word. Finds definitions contain-
ing search words.
Other Keys
Backs up, erases a typed letter, or turns off a high­light.
Begins a search, selects a menu item, or starts a highlight.
Shows help messages. Shifts keys to type punc-
tuation or capital letters.
?
Types a ? to stand for an unknown letter in a word; shows Confusables in text; shifted, types an * to stand for a series of un­known letters.
Direction Keys
Move in indicated direc­tion.
PREV
NEXT
/
Shows the previous or next definition.
UP
/
Pages up or down.
DN
Types a space or pages
SPACE
down.
Adjusting the Contrast
You can adjust the screen contrast by using the contrast wheel ( ) located on the right side of the unit.
Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing rection keys to read it. To exit help, press
At the Entry screen and menus, brief instructions are displayed right on the screen.
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HELP
. Press the di-
BACK
.
Changing SettingsInstalling Batteries
Your Language Master uses 4 AA batteries. When the batteries require changing, a low battery warning will be displayed on the screen. Here is how to install or replace them.
Warning: When the batteries lose power or are removed from your Language Master, any cus­tom settings that you entered will be erased; however, your User List will be kept intact.
1. Turn Language Master
over.
2. Slide off the battery
cover.
3. Install the batteries fol-
lowing the diagram out­side the battery case.
4. Replace the battery
cover.
About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this User’s Guide may vary slightly from what you see on screen. This does not mean that your Language Mas­ter is malfunctioning.
You can adjust the font size, toggle the display of all capital letters, or adjust the shutoff time.
Set Type Size
large text appears on your screen.
on all caps
ters in every screen.
changes how small or
Turn
displays text in all capital let-
Set Shutoff Time
determines how long your Language Master stays on if you forget to turn it off.
1. Press
2. Press
CLEAR
MENU
. .
3. Press the arrow keys to high­light Set Type Size, Tu r n on all caps, or Set Shutoff Time.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
5. Highlight a setting, if needed.
The active settings are marked with
a . To exit without changing set-
tings, press
6. Press
BACK
ENTER
to select it.
.
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Viewing a
Demonstration
Finding Definitions
You can view a demonstration of what your Language Master can do.
CLEAR
MENU
. .
1. Press
2. Press
3. Press the arrow keys to highlight View Demo.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
To stop the demo at any time, press
Follow the Arrows
CLEAR
.
The flashing arrows on the top right of the screen show in which direction you can scroll.
The arrows next to the icons tell you which arrow key you can press to navigate through the entries.
For a description of the icons, see About Icons on page 6.
To look up a word in the dictio­nary, simply type it at the Entry screen and press
ENTER
. Try this
example.
CLEAR
1. Press
.
2. Type a word (e.g., run).
To move the cursor, press or . To erase a letter, press
BACK
.
ENTER
3. Press
.
Notice that the Dict icon is highlighted, indicating that you are viewing a dictionary entry. Read “About Icons” on page 6 to learn more. If more than one entry is found, the number of matches is displayed on the top of the
1/2
screen (e.g.,
indicates the
first of two entries).
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Finding Definitions
Finding Definitions
4. Press or
5. Press
NEXT
to browse the
SPACE
to read.
next dictionary entry.
6. Press
CLEAR
when fin-
ished.
About definitions
Some definitions contain the etymology, or history, of the word.
In others, examples of usage are shown in brackets (e.g., in the first entry for run, <lets his children
run
>).
About Icons
Icons on the top of the screen allow you to easily view dictio­nary (Dict), thesaurus (Thes), Classmates fusables word.
A highlighted icon indicates which category you are cur­rently viewing.
A bolded icon means there are entries in that category for the current word.
An icon shown in italics indi­cates there are no entries in that category for the current word.
For example, when you view the dictionary entry for run, the Dict icon is highlighted ( icons are bolded (
thesaurus and Classmates en­tries for this word, and the Conf icon is italic ( meaning there are no Confus­ables for this word.
(Class), or Con-
®
(Conf) entries for a
), the Thes and Class
) indicating there are
,
)
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Finding Words in
Definitions
You can find all the definitions in which a specific word or phrase appears.
1. Press
2. Press
3. Type a word or phrase (e.g., US state).
4. Press
If more than one entry with the search word(s) is found, the number of matches played on the top of the screen.
5. Press or read.
CLEAR
SEARCH
ENTER
. .
.
is dis-
SPACE
to
Finding Words in
Definitions
6. Press
7. Press
NEXT
to view the next definition with your word(s) in it.
To see the previous one,
PREV
press
.
CLEAR
when fin-
ished.
Two Ways to Back Up
Pressing to the previous screen you viewed. You can continue to back up until you get to the Entry screen.
Pressing previous screen of similar in­formation. For example, if you were viewing a dictio­nary definition, you would go to the previous definition.
BACK
takes you back
PREV
takes you to the
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Correcting
Misspellings
Finding Synonyms
If you misspell a word, your Language Master will automati­cally correct it. Even if you don’t know how to spell some­thing, you can type it in phoneti­cally.
CLEAR
1. Press
.
2. Type a misspelled word (e.g. nolij).
BACK
To erase a letter, press
3. Press
ENTER
.
.
4. Press or to high­light a correction.
ENTER
5. Press
to view its
dictionary entry.
To go back to the correction list, press
6. Press
BACK
.
CLEAR
when fin-
ished.
When the Thes icon appears in bold type, it means that there is at least one thesaurus entry for that word.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word (e.g., splen- did).
ENTER
3. Press
.
4. Press or to high­light the Thes icon.
The first thesaurus entry will be displayed.
If more than one entry with the search word(s) is found, the number of matches is dis­played on the top of the screen.
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