Do you remember those early days at school when you learnt to write and spell using workbooks? Sometimes you'd follow the contour of dotted outlines to form letter shapes and sometimes there'd be little boxes in which to place your basic arithmetic answers. All good fun. Such workbooks are now confined to those rosier than real memories of childhood. Or are they? Not, if you're learning Teeline. Harry Butler's Teeline Gold Workbook is packed with exercises of varying types designed to bring on your Teeline - and quickly. Now it must be stated at the outset that this small book is not a course. Nor is it a theory book. It is meant to be used alongside either the mighty Teeline Gold Course Book or Ann Dix's Teeline Fast title. That said, the blue workbook does follow the same logic as the other Heinemann Teeline titles in its foundation-building approach. Its point of departure is the Teeline alphabet. This quick overview is followed, in turn, by writing Teeline, plurals and the letter "s", "T"s and "D"s, vowels, common word endings, blends and then, finally, common word beginnings, such as "under", "trans" and "multi". Within each of the various section headings there are writing ...

The first thing you'll notice when you take Teeline Fast into your hands is... it's thin. But don't let its surprising lack of dimensional girth put you off. This book will, in the right hands, see you from beginner to 110wpm in little time at all. [caption id="attachment_93" align="alignleft" width="110" caption="teeline fast by Ann Dix"][/caption] First published back in 1990, Teeline Fastfilled an important gap in the shorthand text book marketplace. Although Ivy Constance-Hill's excellent Teeline had been out since the early 1980s, there was an absence of guides for those learning on a time budget. For some time now, Teeline Fast has been a staple component in the learning arsenal of journalists eager to reach the 100wpm industry standard in a little over four months. And it is in aiding short course shorthand students that Teeline Fast really comes into its own. The layout is crisp, clear and accessible. Ms Dix's style is authoratitive and engaging. The examples and practice exercises are relevant and purposeful. So far, so good. Where's the catch? Well, there isn't one really. It is called Teeline Fast and it does exactly what it says on the tin. Is it best used in a classroom environment where the finer points of detail ...

Shorthand World readers frequently ask us which are the best books for learning shorthand. There are hundreds of excellent books out there which will help you learn or improve, so choosing from them is no mean feat. But we'll have a stab at naming our top ten books for Pitman and Teeline. To find out more about any of the books below just hover your cursor over them! Teeline Fast (Teeline) Teeline Revised Edition (Teeline) Teeline Gold: Speed Ladder (Teeline Gold) Teeline Gold: Word List (Teeline Gold) Teeline Gold: Student Pack (Teeline) Shorthand Pitman 2000 (Teach Yourself) Pitman 2000: Shorthand Short Course Pitman New Era Shorthand: Anniversary Edition Pitman 2000: Shorthand First Course (Pitman 2000 Shorthand) Shorthand, Pitman's: New Era: Facility Drills (Anniversary Edition) But what do you think? What are your top ten books? Why not drop us a line to let us know!