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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................2

Power Supply ....................................................................................................3

Initialization........................................................................................................3

Keyboard ...........................................................................................................4

Display...............................................................................................................5

Main Menu.........................................................................................................5

DICTIONARIES......................................................................................................6

English-Russian Dictionary ...............................................................................6

Russian-English Dictionary ...............................................................................8

English Explanatory Dictionary .........................................................................8

TOEFL dictionary ..............................................................................................8

USEFUL ENGLISH ................................................................................................8

Irregular verbs ...................................................................................................8

Popular Idioms ..................................................................................................9

Phrasebook .......................................................................................................9

EXAMINATION.......................................................................................................9

CALCULATIONS..................................................................................................10

Basic Calculator ..............................................................................................10

Scientific Calculator.........................................................................................10

Metric Conversion ...........................................................................................10

Currency Conversion....................................................................................... 10

TIME.....................................................................................................................11

CALENDAR..........................................................................................................12

GAMES ................................................................................................................12

Sokoban ..........................................................................................................12

Rendzu ............................................................................................................13

Reversi ............................................................................................................13

Minesweeper ...................................................................................................13

SYSTEM SETUP..................................................................................................14

Interface Language .........................................................................................14

Clock ...............................................................................................................14

Daily Alarm ......................................................................................................15

Time/Date Format ...........................................................................................15

Set contrast .....................................................................................................15

Key Tone .........................................................................................................15

Set sleep time..................................................................................................15

About ...............................................................................................................15

Summary of content (15 pages)

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................2 Power Supply ....................................................................................................3 Initialization........................................................................................................3 Keyboard ...........................................................................................................4 Display.............................
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T User Manual INTRODUCTION Congratulations on purchasing ECTACO Partner® ER300T! This product is the result of the combined efforts of ECTACO’s linguists, engineers, and programmers.
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T User Manual Power Supply ECTACO Partner® ER300T is powered by three AAA (LR03) batteries. When the batteries become low, a warning message will appear. In order to prevent an excessive discharge of the batteries and resulting loss of data in RAM, the Say function will be disabled if battery power is low. To restore full functionality of the device and to avoid risk of losing user data, replace the complete set of batteries as soon as possible. Do not mix old and new batteries.
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T User Manual Keyboard The standard American QWERTY keyboard is combined with Russian standard layout. To enter additional characters in Russian (marked with yellow at the upper right of the keys), press SHIFT + the desired key. 9 Unlike PC keyboards, there is no need to keep a key (such as SHIFT) down while pressing another one. It is enough to press it only once and release. The available set of national characters is dependent on which language input mode is selected.
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T A, P User Manual Have a headword pronounced, where available Specify AM or PM (when the 12-hour format is set) Display ECTACO Partner® ER300T features the 111 x 48 pixel LCD with 10 flags.
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T User Manual DICTIONARIES The Dictionaries section includes English-Russian, Russian-English, EnglishEnglish and TOEFL dictionaries: y y Enter the Dictionaries section. Choose the desired dictionary. English-Russian Dictionary y y To open the English-Russian dictionary, press the ER DICT shortcut key, or enter the Dictionaries section, select English-Russian and press ENTER. Viewing entries To view a translation of a word, enter it from the keyboard.
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T User Manual A – adjective ID – idiom PHR – phrase ABBR – abbreviation INTRJ – interjection PREF – prefix ADV – adverb N – noun PREP – preposition ART – article NPR – proper noun PRON – pronoun AUX – auxiliary NUM – numeral SUFF – suffix CONJ – conjunction PART– particle V – verb Russian nouns in the English-Russian and Russian-English dictionaries are marked with gender and number labels: F – feminine N – neuter M – masculine PL – plural MF – masculine or feminine Instant Reverse Tr
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T User Manual Fuzzy search When you are not sure of the spelling of the word, input * or ? in place of uncertain letters and then press ENTER to get an entry that meets the search criterion. Russian-English Dictionary y y Enter the Dictionaries section. Choose the Russian-English dictionary and press ENTER. The Russian-English dictionary works similarly to the English-Russian dictionary. Please refer to the English-Russian Dictionary section.
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T User Manual Popular Idioms Over 200 widely used American idioms and their equivalents or translations are included in the Popular idioms subsection. y To open the Popular idioms subsection, press the IDIOMS shortcut key, or enter the Useful English section, select Popular idioms and press ENTER. y Type the first letter of the desired idiom and scroll through the list to find it. y Use , to switch between adjacent entries.
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T User Manual y To check your knowledge of words enter the Examination subsection. 9 English-Russian dictionary is set by default. y Try to guess letters in the word by entering them from the keyboard. y Press ENTER to display the hidden word. y Press any key for the next examination. 9 To change the current dictionary, enter the Select dictionary subsection and select the desired dictionary.
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T User Manual The Currency Conversion function allows you to instantly calculate conversion values between eight pre-installed currencies and two user-defined currencies. Setting and Checking Rates y Select the Set rate subsection to specify currency names and rates. New currencies may be added in place of question marks. y Specify an exchange rate relative to the basic currency (whose rate should equal 1). 9 The default exchange rate for all currencies is 1.
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T y y y y y User Manual The World Time screen shows the names of the selected city and country (default: Moscow, Russia), date, day of the week, and the current time for that city. To see information for another city, scroll through the alphabetic list by pressing ▼, ▲. To see information for another country, scroll through the alphabetic list by pressing , .
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T y y y User Manual Press ENTER to start the game. Use ▼, ▲,◄, ► to control the mover. To quit the game, press ESC. Rendzu Players take turns putting black and white chips on the intersection points of the grid. Each player tries to build up an uninterrupted vertical, horizontal, or diagonal row of five chips of his color, simultaneously preventing his opponent from doing the same. y y y Open the Rendzu subsection and press ENTER to start the game.
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T User Manual y Open the Minesweeper subsection and press ▼or ▲ to set the difficulty level (from 1 to 7). y Press ENTER to start the game. Use: • ▼, ▲, ◄, ► to move the cursor; • (SPACE) to mark a square you suspect contains a mine; • ENTER to uncover a square. If a number appears on a square, it indicates how many mines are in the eight squares that surround the numbered one. y To quit the game, press ESC twice.
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ECTACO Partner® ER300T User Manual Daily Alarm y Enter the Daily Alarm subsection. 9 The default values are midnight, 00:00, and Off. Use: • ◄, ► to switch between hours and minutes; • ▼, ▲ to set the time; • A, P to specify AM or PM; y Press ENTER to save changes. y Press ▼, ▲ to turn the alarm on/off. If turned on, the Daily Alarm produces a signal at the set time. y Press any key to interrupt the Daily Alarm beep (otherwise, the beep will continue for 30 seconds).