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:
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PDF for each web page, of the shorthand and text (no photos)
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PDF of one of the blogs laid out as a
facility drill booklet
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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
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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:
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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