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Gregg Shorthand: Dictation and Transcription

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Due to a lack of shorthand classes in my area, I decided to buy this book and teach myself. I read the warnings that this book is not recommended for beginners, but I've taught myself many other skills in the past and figured learning shorthand would be challenging, but possible. When I received the book, I realized that the author assumes you've already read Basic Principles. There are no explanations for what shorthand is, how it originated, or which tools are needed to get started, and I was expecting to see at least a couple of pages covering these topics. I was also disappointed that there are no explanations for any of the material covered in the chapters and that there doesn't seem to be answers for any of the transcription exercises. I returned this book.

This book is great and all, the only problem is, you have to make sure you know the words in shorthand already. This book doesn't waste any time and goes straight to the transcription, but that may not be so good for new users. Other than that, this book is great and really goes indepth with the way to transcipt your shorthand notes.

This book is VERY good for learning Gregg shorthand. It shows the forms clearly and has lists of brief forms. The sentences that are written in shorthand in the front of the book are written in English in the back for easy decoding. It explains shorthand very well, and is an all-around great book for learning to write in shorthand.

Years ago I went to secretarial school and learned shorthand. I use it to this day. It's a wonderful way to take notes when people are talking to you on the phone, reminder notes to do this or that, grocery lists, whatever.

Yes, it takes time, work, and drill to learn shorthand. Yes, it's worth your while! Once you know shorthand, you will never have to hide your gift list again <sly smile>.

This book should be a Kindle book. Even though Gregg Shorthand is becoming a lost art. I think it would get a surge in popularity if it were made into a Kindle Book. Especially if a good Gregg Shorthand dictionary were a Kindle book. Imagine being able to enlarge the shorthand forms and the words. I love the idea of all this to happen.

Dear Betterworldbooks:

The book in question finally arrived in the mail about 3 days ago (today is Sunday, 06 Nov 2011). Thank you for your professional reaction to my concerns.

I purchased Gregg Shorthand from you because I want to own at least one book from the three systems of shorthand, i.e., Pitman, Gregg and Evans. I have mastered Evans shorthand and would like to be able to show any future students of shorthand what the other two major systems look like. Of course, shorthand usage is rare nowadays, but it is great for capturing music lyrics, and for college students who love to quickly capture information for the purposes of cramming and transferring written info from source to notes to typewritten report. By the way, Evans shorthand is by far the most efficient of the three.

Thank You,

Christopher Cleare Glashaus
designer of EGOBLOW
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I like the layout of the book with practical application and guidelines for practicing the forms.

This is an excellent book. Everything was as I had expected. Easy to understand and very helpful for reviewing the subject which is what I was looking for.

Gregg shorthand handbook is as good now as it was way back when. This hard to find in print book has everything you need to keep yourself in practice with shorthand.

I was very happy to find a copy of the first textbook that I learned Gregg Shorthand from in high school. I am looking for the seond year book which was blue and the appropriate dictionaries and transcripts that went to both books. It has not been that difficult to retrain myself in the symbols. I'm not worried about speed now. I use it for taking notes of phone calls before I input them into my company's client database for action.