Franklin LM-5000A

Franklin LM-5000 Language Master is an electronic dictionary designed to help learning foreign languages, especially German. It comes with several features that are are particularly useful for learning, such as word lists, verb conjugation or noun and adjective inflection.

*** Important: Franklin Electronics stopped producing electronic dictionaries ***

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Languages

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Franklin LM-5000 Language Master translates each language only to German and vice versa.

Useful Features

Franklin LM-5000 has both bilingual and monolingual dictionaries, perfect for students of languages. Moreover, the Franklin Language Master has several additional functions helpful for learning languages. You can save keywords as word lists and use them while learning. The device offers also verb conjugation, noun and adjective inflection. Besides grammar rules, you can use a phrasebook with the most useful expressions in all languages. 

Exercises

Thanks to the word list function, you can save vocabulary which you are learning at the moment. Moreover, with "exercise" you can take a test to check your spelling skills. Additionally, your own list of words is saved as bookmarks, so you could easily check the definitions and examples of usage.

Functions

• Look-up in all available dictionaries function
• Look-up of all forms
• Personal word list
• Vocabulary pracitce
• Look-up history
• Ergonomic QWERTZ keyboard
• Zoom, font size regulation

Dictionaries

• PONS Schule und Studium Spanisch aktuell (Dictionary of Spanish)
• PONS Schule und Studium Englisch aktuell (Dictionary of English)
• PONS Schule und Studium Französisch aktuell (Dictionary of French)
• PONS Wörterbuch für Schule und Studium Latein (Dictionary of Latin)
• PONS Verbtabellen PLUS - Eng, Fra, Spa, Ger, Lat
• KLETT Abiturwissen Englisch Landeskunde GB / USA
• KLETT Realschule Komplettwissen Englisch 5-8
• KLETT Green Line & Orange Line Glossare
• The Oxford Advanced Learner´s Dictionary 8th.
• Duden - Die deutsche Rechtschreibung
• LAROUSSE Dictionaire de Francais

Our opinion

Franklin LM-5000 is a good choice for demanding learners of foreign languages. Broad dictionaries and applications facilitate and speed up the process of learning. Moreover, Franklin LM-5000 may be helpful to travelers and businessmen as a handheld dictionary.

Advantages

• in-built dictionaries, each of them containing over 200,000 words
• a lot of tools helpful in learning languages
• language games

Additional functions

• Calendar and schedule
• Timer
• Clock
• Calculator
• Unit converter
• Currency converter

The kit includes

• Franklin Language Master LM-5000
• 2x AAA batteries

Technical details

• LED Backlit Display
• PC and Mac connection via USB
• 2xAAA Batteries
• MicroSD slot
• Size: 140 x 75 x 20 mm
• Weight: 140 g