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Teach Yourself Shorthand Pitman 2000 (Tybu) Paperback – 26 Sept. 2003

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Pitman 2000 is a system designed for easy learning, with a speed potential to meet the demands of the modern business world.

Shorthand is a valuable asset to everyone, young or old, in private or business life. TEACH YOURSELF SHORTHAND: PITMAN 2000 is a beginner's guide to the basic theory. It gives you a working vocabulary in Pitman 2000 in clear and easy stages.

Each of the main sections contains a new set of sounds and rules, short forms, phrases and exercises. Review exercises give you the opportunity to consolidate material already covered, and a key to the exercises enable you to measure your rate of progress throughout the book.

Specially compiles by experts at Pitman to make self-tuition both simple and stimulating, this authoritative book is indispensable to anyone seeking a first or refresher course in Pitman 2000.

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0340859482
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978-0340859483
Publisher

Teach Yourself Books
Publication date

26 Sept. 2003
Language

English
Dimensions

16.6 x 1.5 x 19.9 cm
Print length

192 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Teach Yourself Books (26 Sept. 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0340859482
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0340859483
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.6 x 1.5 x 19.9 cm

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Jeff McCabe

It covers everything I need

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 February 2022

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A great product from a great company. Excellent value and excellent customer service. I could not believe how inexpensive my book was. I don't know how they do it but I'm glad they do. Will be buying from them again very soon.

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Tzelemel

Not useful for beginners, especially if teaching self

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 February 2010

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Shorthand Pitman 2000 is a reasonable book giving an insight to the world of shorthand. It claims that it is good for beginners and self-tuition, but the contents of the book clearly reveal this claim to be a lie. Granted, the authors do start out simple, progressively adding new rules at what first appears to be a reasonable pace. You start off with basic strokes and readers are given exercises to practice writing the strokes, both light and heavy. There are exercises featuring shorthand outlines, which you must read and then copy, and also exercises where you're given plain text and asked to translate into shorthand. All good and well.

Unfortunately, the details aren't very well explained. The reading exercises are numerous, giving you plenty of practice in reading. I suspect you're supposed to learn how to phrase from these exercises, but sometimes the phrasing seems arbitrary. No explanation is given as to why some words can be written in "one single stroke", whereas others cannot. The longhand-to-shorthand exercises are few and far in between, and though helpful in telling you how the words should be phrased, also do not give you any explanation as to why they are phrased like that.

As you progress, you'll also be given a list of common short forms, like the strokes for "and", "but" etc. This is all good and well, but it would also be useful for an additional glossary to appear in the back of the book to aid in revision. This point isn't so bad, as I can always create one myself. However, what is unforgiveable are some of the reading and copying exercises.

For example, early on in the book, you're given a word that contains the F stroke; the only problem being that you haven't yet encountered the F stroke. You're taught that in a later chapter. This is not the only example. There are other writing exercises that contain shorthand forms that have not yet been taught to you, but will eventually be taught in later chapters. There's another one where a single J stroke appears; this is the shortform for the word, large, but this has not yet been taught to you. There are also some exercises aren't quite easy to read, as the strokes seem either broken, giving the impression that there's a dot at the end of one of them signifying the -ING suffix, too thick and tehrefore making you read the wrong letter, or don't match the answer given in the back (e.g. where the outline in an exericse clearly says gates, whereas the answer in the back of the book says the word should be gate).

I myself am not happy with this book and will not be recommending it to others.

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Nicky

Good condition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 14 August 2020

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Learnt this version of shorthand over 30 yrs ago and not used it for decades
Decided I would like to brush up on it and was really happy to find this book
Received quickly and in good condition so very happy

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Jemma Rowe

Very pleased.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 November 2017

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I am currently using this book to learn Shorthand from scratch. So far I am very happy with it and feel that it is a perfectly suitable for a complete beginner. The key is to follow the instructions in the books introduction in regards to not moving onto a new section until you are sure you have mastered the previous one. It has very occasionally gotten slightly ahead of itself by referencing something that doesn't appear until the following segment e.g. using the symbol for F once in section 1 before introducing this letter shape in section 2, however this is rare and isn't really disruptive to the learning process. The copy I received appears to have been an old library book, but it looks like it was never used! It arrived promptly and was in very good condition. Overall very pleased and I would definitely recommend it.

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Angela Maude

No to underlining

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 April 2020

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It would have been helpful to mention parts of the book have been underlined.
Other than that no problems at all.

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Av.E

Brush up on shorthand

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 February 2013

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Learnt shorthand years ago and thought about trying to see what I could remember, this book was ideal, very pleased arrived well before estimate delivery date and packaged well. So pleased with the price amazing it was in good order as described from seller.

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Myra F

Shorthand Pitman 2000

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 3 March 2013

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The book arrived very promptly and is an excellent guide to Pitman's Shorthand. Although it was advertised as 'new' in fact it was a discarded library copy but did the trick and was in good condition. Would have been good if it had included a dictionary of shorthand words. Also since it was 2000 it may not have included some more of the most up-to-date words use in technology. Did what it says on the tin.

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Amazon Customer

Teach Yourself Shortand

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 February 2012

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This book is excellent if you want to do a refresher course. If you have a knowledge of shorthand (I learnt it in my teens) then this is the perfect book for you. It is now suitable for beginners.

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