I still have my Pitmans Course book and also my Learning and Testing
Short Forms book that I had when I went back to evening classes to brush up
my shorthand. I took shorthand, typing and accounts at school way back in
the early fifties.
With the arrival of audio tapes the shorthand rather got
Oh Janice I had forgotten about the typing to music, we also had one rather
nasty teacher who used a metronome and speeded it up as you practice typed.
I can still hear him chanting ASDF:LKJ
We were not allowed to look at the keys and that has always stood me in good
stead as it definitely helped
I still have my text book from a shorthand course I did when I was 15. I
used shorthand for many years at school, university, work and still use it
for general notes and lists and such like.
And, of course, I do it in Dutch.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
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I took shorthand in high school and then again in business college. But,
unfortunately, by the time I sent to college to pursue my degree, I had
lost those skills. I was truly bewailing the loss as it would have made
lecture classes much easier to remember. Like most things in life, it's
use
Agnes Boddington wrote:
I still have my text book from a shorthand course I did when I was 15. I
used shorthand for many years at school, university, work and still use
it for general notes and lists and such like.
And, of course, I do it in Dutch.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
I still
Ruth Rocker wrote:
I took shorthand in high school and then again in business college. But,
unfortunately, by the time I sent to college to pursue my degree, I had
lost those skills. I was truly bewailing the loss as it would have made
lecture classes much easier to remember. Like most things
Lesley wrote:
I still use my shorthand - Pitman 2000, especially for taking telephone
messages.
This discussion has reminded me about a temp job I did as secretary to a bank
manager. He used to reel off his letters really fast and I could barely keep
up. Once I couldn't read a shorthand
