Get Started In Shorthand: Pitman 2000

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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 enables 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

• Diphthongs
• 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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