|
|
Post by Deb on Jan 21, 2010 17:38:54 GMT -5
If for some reason you don't have access to any vocal dictation, you can copy for dictation practice.
Or if you're in a place where you can't listen to vocal dictation.
What you have memorized.
Write down what you have memorized. This way you're writing as fast as you're thinking.
Any printed material
Read several words ahead and try to remember what you read and write it down.
Use your favorite books, magazines, newspapers, online sites.
Write the transcript
This is helpful because you have to "see" what the word is in shorthand. And you have the original shorthand to double check what you've wrote.
|
|
|
|
Post by Deb on Mar 4, 2010 14:02:44 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by Deb on Aug 23, 2010 16:25:33 GMT -5
Think of 20 of the following, thinking and writing rapidly
*trees
*flowers
*animals
*vegetables
*fruits
*furniture
*vehicles
*girls names
*boys names
*surnames
*politians
*poets
*novelists
*countries
*games
*historic events
*sports teams
*sayings
*town names
*charities
*TV shows
*movies
*famous _______
*ingredients in recipes
*technologies
*pop culture
*greatest inventions
*facts about yourself
*favorite hobby
etc...
Just any list...
|
|
|
|
Post by Deb on Aug 8, 2011 11:50:08 GMT -5
Copy and paste into a blank paper. Leave a space below the line. The shorthand outlines below it. |
|
|
|
Post by Deb on Aug 8, 2011 11:51:50 GMT -5
Write one sentence in shorthand. Write that sentenece again several times. Try to write faster each time your write it. Even write it really fast to where you may not get every outline accurate. Then work on those. When you write it really fast, sometimes you can see what you may need to wor on (such as writing the letter "N" with the "I" after it as I did the drill here www.greggshorthand.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=drills&thread=508 ). |
|
|
|
Post by Deb on Nov 21, 2011 16:35:42 GMT -5
what do you have memorized? "Dictate" those to yourself.
Homework? (In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue...)
Song? (Happy birthday... for He's a Jolly Good Fellow... All You Need is Love... Moves like Jaggar...)
Bible verse or other religious verse?
Quote?
Saying?
Or find something you want to memorize and memorize that, then dictate it to yourself.
|
|
|
|
Post by Deb on Nov 21, 2011 16:37:51 GMT -5
From the discussion: High Speed in Shothand How to Obtain It www.greggshorthand.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=intermediate&action=display&thread=317 from the Gregg Writer "The best way to gain speed in shorthand is to take about 300 words of correctly written phonography, study it thoroughly, and copy it as many as fifty times." yes it said 50 times... "By this time you will have the arrticle in your head. Copy as many times from memory, and you will have the forms so thoroughly impressed upon your brain, and the hand will be so skilled in making these forms, that you will make them almost unconsciously. By continuing this practice, and you will find that you will gain more speed in a week than you will gain in a month by ordinary practice or by receiving so much dictation." books.google.com/books?id=TOsCAAAAYAAJ&dq=editions&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=editions&f=false
If 300 words sound like a lot to you, instead of doing 300 words, do a sentence or two. Or even a paragraph. Or even a few brief forms or phrases. Then write it 50 times. By the time you've written it at least 10 times, you should have it memorized, then you can dictate it to yourself. You may want to see where you hesitate and practice those types of words or symbols. Maybe that one word over and over (even 50 times). Go ahead and try to write fast a few times... but remember to slow down at the end of your "dictation" session to work on accuracy. |
|
|
|
Post by Deb on Feb 28, 2012 18:18:09 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by Deb on Mar 19, 2016 12:01:09 GMT -5
Half the page in text and leave the other half for your shorthand outlines. |
|
|
|
Post by Deb on Mar 19, 2016 12:02:48 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by Deb on Aug 15, 2016 16:52:51 GMT -5
Copy and paste word lists, such as the one above as shown below, into a spreadsheet. Leave an extra long and wide cell next to it to write in your shorthand outlines. You can also do this in a Word processor in tables. Also could be written in longhand down one column of a steno book. Could just be printed up on a paper with lots of space (lines are optional in Gregg). You can find tons of lists on the Drills board.  |
|
|
|
Post by Deb on May 12, 2017 12:40:31 GMT -5
Copy and paste into a blank paper. Leave a space below the line. The shorthand outlines below it. An example from Lesson 25 in the Anniversary manual:  |
|
|
|
Post by Deb on Sept 7, 2017 12:18:28 GMT -5
Copy Poems, poetry, prose, etc., into shorthand. Any favorites? Any memorized? Any you've written in longhand? Maybe you want to keep them secret, so write them in shorthand. There are some from Internet Archive here: archive.org/details/texts?and[]=poem |
|
