Franklin Electronics BFQ-570 Franklin LAROUSSE French-English Dictionary

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Product Feature

• More than 120,000 words and expressions.
• English Thesaurus including 500,000 synonyms and antonyms.
• Based on the Larousse Compact French-English Dictionary, it features words from American English and proper nouns.
• Installed English and French grammar guides and verb conjugations enable you to write or speak with confidence.
• 2,000 examples of phrases.

Product Description

Learn the language of love and live a life only imagined by others. Whether you are a Francophile, an oenophile or you'd just like to order dinner in a French restaurant, our Larousse French-English Dictionary allows you to communicate effectively in French. This dictionary is specially designed for all levels of language skill from beginner to advanced.

Franklin Electronics BFQ-570 Franklin LAROUSSE French-English Dictionary Review

GOOD:

*Small and easy to carry. It really does fit in a shirt pocket.

*The dictionary is quite good. It is more complete than any dictionary you could easily carry around.

*If the word you type in is a French verb form, the dictionary will find the infinitive. For example, if you type in "aie", the dictionary will tell you this is a form of "avoir."

BAD:

*The screen is very small. For some words, there are lots of meanings and examples and scrolling through the text to find what you want is a slow and tedious job. For example, the entry for "tout" has 122 lines (I just counted them) and the only way to go through it is to press a scroll button that moves the screen one line at a time. You can hold the scroll button down to make the text go faster but then you won't see what you are looking for. You can make the type size smaller, so 4 lines show at once instead of three, but then (i) everything is in upper case and accents are nearly impossible to make out, and (ii) you still have to scroll one line at a time and the entry for "tout" still has 120 lines. In short, long entries, like the one for "tout, are practically unusable.

*The screen resolution is low. The publicity picture shows a screen with nice crisp looking type, but that's a photo of the scratch protector that covers the screen. When you peel off the scratch protector and use the dictionary you find that the letters on the screen are made up from very visible dots, like 9-pin dot-matrix printers from the 1980s (if you are old enough to remember those).

*The processor is slow. You often have to wait while the dictionary searches for something. Even when you are just scrolling through an entry, you often have to wait. At these times, an icon appears in the upper right corner, showing a book with pages turning; you'll see that a lot.

MINOR NUISANCES:

*When you turn the dictionary on, it displays the notice: "Franklin présente" (one screen) "Le dictionnaire ..." (second screen) and this takes about 2 seconds. But if you just press the on/off button a second time, this notice is bypassed.

*The keyboard was designed for a French person and has not been adapted for English speakers. So, for example, the buttons on the bottom row of the keyboard are: MAJ, AIDE, ARR, ESPACE, EFF, MENU, ENTRER. The manual tells you what the buttons do but doesn't explain the names. I figured out that "MAJ" is short for "majuscule", meaning "capital letter"; "ARR" is short for "arrière", meaning "back"; "EFF" is short for "effacer", meaning to clear an entry; the others should be obvious. Another indication of the French design is that the keyboard is not QWERTY but AZERTY, though I haven't found that a major problem.

*At the bottom of each entry there is a horizontal line, presumably to tell you that you are at the end of the entry. This is unnecessary because there is an indicator on the right hand side of the screen that shows whether there is more text or not. And it is a nuisance because you often scroll down to see the next line, only to find that it is this horizontal line. So, for example, if an entry has three lines of text, what you see on the screen is three lines of text and an arrow indicating that there is more below, but when you scroll to see what is below, all you get is the horizontal line.

CONCLUSION:

Despite its serious flaws, this product is still better to carry around than a paper dictionary because it is small and you can look up words more quickly.

There should be a better electronic French-English dictionary but, if there is, I haven't seen it. On the other hand, if you have a smartphone, I think you can get a French-English dictionary app for it that is much cheaper than the Franklin product and has a better user interface.

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