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>> No. 5856 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 4:02 pm
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How hard is it to learn shorthand and become proficient at it?

Is it something I could do in an afternoon? Obviously I wouldn't be an expert but I'd want to be at least faster than longhand.
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>> No. 5857 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 8:19 pm
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>>5856

It's not difficult but I think an afternoon is an unrealistic timespan. I learned in a three month module of a journalism degree I ended up dropping out of and this was the textbook (from 1996).
>> No. 5858 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 1:03 am
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It's one of those things that's easy to learn but hard to master. If you put your mind to it you can learn the motions in an afternoon, but to become proficient at it requires a lot of practice. As >>5857 says, a couple of months of proper practice is enough, but any less and you'll be no faster and prone to error. It's a mechanical skill, really, and that requires muscle memory; if you're good at that maybe you need less time but please please please be aware of the difference when it comes to knowing how to do something and being able to do something.
>> No. 5859 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 1:48 am
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If I wake up and don't have to get up properly for a while, I daub the shapes of song lyrics in teeline. It's just a weird habit I picked up but it got me a lot better at sight-reading it (rather than having to decipher it).

My mum said her shorthand tutor advised her to practice all the time, e.g. every time she sees a sign, to visualise it in shorthand.
>> No. 5860 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 4:03 pm
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How useful do you you guys find knowing shorthand?

I'm in my final year of Uni now, so I don't think it'll be beneficial for me, as I specifically wanted it for note taking during lectures.
>> No. 5861 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 10:05 pm
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>>5860

I don't find it a bit useful. It's just fun.

I'm only very slightly faster at shorthand than writing normally. Can't you take lecture notes on a laptop? I'm sure it would be a ton faster.

I only find it useful for writing things I wouldn't want someone else reading, like an embarrassing item on a shopping list or something.
>> No. 5862 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 11:45 pm
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>>5861
>lecture notes on a laptop

Heathen.

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