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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. Get Started in Shorthand: Pitman 2000 is the perfect guide to this useful tool for a busy and fast-moving world.

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.


Consonants
Vowels
Position of outlines
Circle S
SES circle
The suffix -ING
Tick THE
Punctuation


Seven more consonants
Stroke S
Past tense of regular verbs
The consonant R
Unstressed vowels


Halving to add T
Halving to add D
When not to halve


The L hook
The final syllables -TL or -DL
L hook with circle S
Plural -INGS


Dots
Dashes


Dipthongs
Triphones
SES circle


The ST loop
The -STER loop
M and N with a following T or D
S and Z
Diphones
ZH
H


R hook on straight strokes
Stress rules


Final hook N to curved strokes
Final N hook to straight strokes


Suffixes
Compound consonants


Initial hooks to curved strokes
Stress rules with R and L hooks
Reverse forms of initially hooked curves


-SHUN hook
F/V hook


Doubling
CON- or COM-


Figures
Negative words
Suffix -SHIP
Disjoining
Omission of a consonant
Vowel insertion




One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.


Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.


Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.


Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.


Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.