Get Started In Shorthand: Pitm

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Gain a working vocabulary in Pitman 2000 in clear and easy stages

Shorthand is a valuable asset to everyone, young or old, in private or business life and Pitman 2000 is a system designed for easy learning, with a speed potential to meet the demands of a modern fast-moving world. Get Started in Shorthand: Pitman 2000 is a beginner's guide to the basic theory and will give you a working vocabulary in Pitman 2000 in clear and easy stages.

Each of the main sections contains a new set of sounds and rules, short forms, phrases and exercises, including audio exercises online. Review exercises give you the opportunity to consolidate material already covered, and a key to the exercises enable you to measure your rate of progress throughout the book. Written to make self-tuition both simple and stimulating and based on original Pitman Publishing material, this authoritative book is indispensable to anyone seeking a first or refresher course in Pitman 2000.

Get Started in Shorthand: Pitman 2000 includes:

Chapter 1: Basic strokes

Consonants

Vowels

Position of outlines

Circle S

SES circle

The suffix -ING

Tick THE

Punctuation

Chapter 2: Consonants and vowels

Seven more consonants

Stroke S

Past tense of regular verbs

The consonant R

Unstressed vowels

Chapter 3: Halving strokes

Halving to add T

Halving to add D

When not to halve

Chapter 4: Common combinations

The L hook

The final syllables -TL or -DL

L hook with circle S

Plural -INGS

Chapter 5: Third-place vowels

Dots

Dashes

Chapter 6: Complex vowel sounds

Dipthongs

Triphones

SES circle

Chapter 7: S and T in combinations

The ST loop

The -STER loop

M and N with a following T or D

S and Z

Diphones

ZH

H

Chapter 8: The R hook

R hook on straight strokes

Stress rules

Chapter 9: Hook N

Final hook N to curved strokes

Final N hook to straight strokes

Chapter 10: Suffixes and compounds

Suffixes

Compound consonants

Chapter 11: L and R hooks with curves

Initial hooks to curved strokes

Stress rules with R and L hooks

Reverse forms of initially hooked curves

Chapter 12: More hooks

-SHUN hook

F/V hook

Chapter 13: Speed strokes

Doubling

CON- or COM-

Chapter 14: Last words

Figures

Negative words

Suffix -SHIP

Disjoining

Omission of a consonant

Vowel insertion

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