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™ ....................................................	9
Finding Confusables® .................................................	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
2

CLEAR

GAMES

GRAMMAR

LIST

ON/OFF

PHONICS

EAD

SAY

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 containing 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 punctuation 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 un-
	known letters.

Direction Keys

Move in indicated direction.

PREV / NEXT Shows the previous or next definition.

UP / DN Pages up or down.

SPACE Types a space or pages 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 HELP . Press the direction keys to read it. To exit help, press BACK.

At the Entry screen and menus, brief instructions are displayed right on the screen.

Installing Batteries Changing Settings

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 following 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 changes how small or large text appears on your screen. Turn on all caps displays text in all capital letters in every screen. Set Shutoff Time determines how long your Language Master stays on if you forget to turn it off.

1. Press CLEAR .

2. Press MENU .

3.Press the arrow keys to highlight Set Type Size, Turn 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 settings, press BACK .

6. Press ENTER to select it.

Viewing a

Demonstration

You can view a demonstration of what your Language Master can do.

1.Press CLEAR .

2.Press MENU .

3.Press the arrow keys to highlight View Demo.


4. Press			to select it.
	ENTER
To stop the demo at any
time, press				.
		CLEAR

Follow the Arrows

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.

Finding Definitions

To look up a word in the dictionary, simply type it at the Entry screen and press ENTER . Try this example.

1.Press CLEAR .

2.Type a word (e.g., run).

To move the cursor, press

or . To erase a letter, press

BACK .

3.Press ENTER .

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 screen (e.g., 1/2 indicates the first of two entries).

Finding Definitions

4. Press	or		to read.
		SPACE

5.Press NEXT to browse the next dictionary entry.

6.Press CLEAR when finished.

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>).

Finding Definitions

About Icons

Icons on the top of the screen allow you to easily view dictionary (Dict), thesaurus (Thes), Classmates™ (Class), or Confusables® (Conf) entries for a 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

( ), the Thes and Class icons are bolded (,

) indicating there are thesaurus and Classmates entries for this word, and the Conf icon is italic () meaning there are no Confusables for this word.

Finding Words in

Definitions

You can find all the definitions in which a specific word or phrase appears.

1.Press CLEAR .

2.Press SEARCH .

3.Type a word or phrase (e.g., US state).

4.Press ENTER .

Finding Words in

Definitions

6.Press NEXT to view the next definition with your word(s) in it.

To see the previous one, press PREV .

7.Press CLEAR when finished.

If more than one entry with the search word(s) is found, the number of matches is displayed on the top of the screen.

5. Press	or		to
		SPACE
read.

Two Ways to Back Up

Pressing BACK takes you back to the previous screen you viewed. You can continue to back up until you get to the Entry screen.

Pressing PREV takes you to the previous screen of similar information. For example, if you were viewing a dictionary definition, you would go to the previous definition.

Correcting	Finding Synonyms
Misspellings

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.

1.Press CLEAR .

2.Type a misspelled word (e.g. nolij).

To erase a letter, press BACK .

3.Press ENTER .

4.Press or to highlight a correction.