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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 o
Table of Contents
- : Introduction
- : 1. Consonants and vowels
- : 2. Seven more consonants and indicating vowels
- : 3. Halving strokes
- : 4. The L hook
- : 5. REVIEW
- : 6. Third-place vowels
- : 7. Diphthongs and triphones
- : 8. The ST loop and the -STER loop
- : 9. S and Z
- : 10. Initial R hook to straight strokes
- : 11. REVIEW
- : 12. Final hook N to curved strokes
- : 13. Final hook N to straight strokes
- : 14. Suffixes
- : 15. Compound consonants
- : 16. Initial hooks to curved strokes
- : 17. Reverse forms of initially hooked curves
- : 18. REVIEW
- : 19. -SHUN hook
- : 20. F/V hook
- : 21. Doubling
- : 22. Prefix CON- or COM-
- : 23. Figures, negative words and vowel insertion
- : 24. REVIEW
- : Keys to the exercises
