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Welcome to the Pitman's New Era Shorthand Reading website. This site contains reading and practice material for those who have completed learning the system.

 

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https://long-live-pitmans-shorthand-lessons.org.uk

 

This is for the complete beginner, consisting of 60 graded Lessons pages, 58 Exercises pages, and downloads of Facility Drill PDFs and Dictations.

 

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Free 3000 Common Word Learners Dictionary PDF, comprising over 11,300 outlines, available on the theory website:

www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand.org.uk/downloads.htm

 

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Blog articles

 

The blog articles here date from April 2012 to August 2021. The blogs are minimally vocalised and contain slightly more vowel signs than a writer would insert. This is because you are reading shorthand that is unknown, unlike reading notes that you have written yourself. Essential vowels are indicated in the notes under each paragraph. There is one web page per month and an average of four blogs per month.

 

General articles

 

These are all fully vocalised so that you can consolidate knowledge of vowel signs and positions, but that is not how shorthand should be written in real life, as it would be far too slow and laborious. Essential vowels are indicated in the notes under each paragraph.

 

Snippets

 

These are short pieces of more scribbled shorthand, with no text key, in the manner of diary entries. In real life shorthand, there is never a key to help you read back, and the snippets are intended to provide a stress-free way of practising this skill.

 

Downloads

 

All the blog articles are available monthly as:

  • PDF for each web page, of the shorthand and text (no photos)

  • PDF of one of the blogs laid out as a facility drill booklet

  • Dictations of each blog in a ZIP file at approx 80-90 wpm, including the one used for the facility drill given additionally at 40 wpm

  • Certain articles repeated as High Speed dictations as a separate ZIP

All the 40wpm MP3s are also available as Year At Once zip downloads so that beginners have them all in one collection, but will still need to download the separate PDFs for the shorthand and text.

 

All the general articles are available as:

  • PDF for each web page, of the shorthand and text (no photos)

There are no downloads for the Snippets.

 

Feedback

See Links page for Feedback, Guestbook and Guestmap options on the theory website, and details of free downloads from archive.org of New Era Dictionary and New Era Instructor & Key.

 

Beryl

 

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