andy_wrx said:
What were those awful adverts on the Tube (20 years ago I admit...) ?
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i believe that pitman is easiest "proper" shorthand to learn and you can easily get up to 100 wpm or over. It's not that hard to learn. I don't think a lot of people do teeline anymore. there are still a few jobs that require it, PAs, journalists etc. most colleges do it as evening classes and the best thing to do is do the evening class and then practice what you learn for 15 mins a day while watching something like the news (obviously don't expect to actually keep up with the newsreader but just write what you can!)
the example above is "speedwriting" which is the "new" form shorthand. it's a little bit more complicated than this example when you get into it but it's easier than pitman or teeline to learn. well, i say "new" but it was a few years ago i learnt it. (about 15!) and i haven't seen any courses for it recently as i was going to do a refresher course, to be honest i don't think they do it anymore because it is not as quick as the other shorthand disciplines (you can only get up to about 80 words per minute max).
i did Pitman at evening class a couple of years ago and have to say, it wasn't that hard to learn. sad tho, coz i let it go to waste coz my heart wasn't really in it. idiot.
you could learn pitman on your own if you wanted and you had the literature.