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Shorthand Pitman 2000 (Teach Yourself)
Pitman 2000 is a system designed for easy learning, with a speed potential to meet the demands of the modern business world. Shorthand is a valuable asset to everyone, young or old, in private or business life. This title is a beginner's guide to the basic theory. It gives you a working vocabulary in Pitman 2000 in clear and easy stages. Each of the
main sections contains a set of sounds and rules, short forms, phrases and exercises. Review exercises give you the opportunity to consolidate material already covered, and a key to the exercises enable to measure your rate of progress throughout the book. Specially compiled by experts at Pitman to make self-tuition both simple and stimulating, this authoritative guide should be of use to anyone seeking a first or refresher course in Pitman 2000.
Contents:
Consonants and vowels
- seven more consonants and indicating vowels
- halving strokes
- the L hook
- review
- third-place vowels
- dipthongs and triphones
- the ST loop and the -STER loop
- S and Z
- intitial R hook to straight strokes
- review
- final hook N to curved stokes
- suffixes
- compound consonants
- initial hooks to curved strokes
- reverse forms of intitially hooked curves
- review
- -SHUN hook
- F/V hook
- doubling
- prefix CON- or COM-
- figures, negative words and vowel insertion
- review
- keys to the exercises.
Brief Description:
A beginner's guide to the basic theory of Pitman 2000, this title gives you a working vocabulary in clear and easy stages. Specially compiled by experts at Pitman to make self-tuition both simple and stimulating, it should be of use to anyone seeking a first or refresher course in Pitman 2000.
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