Shorthand World » Technique http://www.shorthandworld.co.uk/home The Online Shorthand Magazine and Shop Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:17:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Pens at the ready, go http://www.shorthandworld.co.uk/home/index.php/2011/01/pens-at-the-ready-go/ http://www.shorthandworld.co.uk/home/index.php/2011/01/pens-at-the-ready-go/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:09:40 +0000 admin http://www.shorthandworld.co.uk/home/?p=232 Here’s a little audio file aimed at those beginning their shorthand studies. The routine begins with simple letters to test one’s learning and then moves on to common sound formations and words. The exercise gets progressively faster as you go along. I hope it is of use!

Speed building exercise

]]> http://www.shorthandworld.co.uk/home/index.php/2011/01/pens-at-the-ready-go/feed/ 1 Free Dictation Passages http://www.shorthandworld.co.uk/home/index.php/2009/12/free-dictation-passages/ http://www.shorthandworld.co.uk/home/index.php/2009/12/free-dictation-passages/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:16:37 +0000 admin http://www.shorthandworld.co.uk/?p=132 Hi everybody. Just a few days until Christmas and it is now snowing in the UK. These are some passages which have been on the site before but were taken off line during a complete site rebuild. Hopefully they’ll be useful – either for those visiting the site for the first time or for those who have tried them before (though hopefully forgotten about them)…

They’re courtesy of WaveMedia and are taken, in Mp3 format, from the CDs which are available in the shop.

50 words per minute dictation passage

60 words per minute dictation exercise

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