I've
just spent the last month trying to learn shorthand.
I've scoured Youtube for tutorial videos and practised the techniques
for Teeline nearly every day. It's a complex language with indicative
strokes to represent letters of the alphabet, designed to allow us to
write words quicker. It's taken a long time to get to where I am, and
I've not really got even the basics.
Shorthand Sue's
videos were great, but there weren't that many of them. I soon found
myself looking at Teeline Online,
another youtuber making clear demonstrations of how to write the
shorthand alphabet and how to put together some simple words. Strange
shapes soon started to make sense, and squiggles slowly became
readable information. Kinda. It's hard to learn but I'm starting to
incorporate it into my own note taking systems. Putting words and
sentences into their abbreviated form takes a lot of thinking about
but I'm hoping I'll be able to keep practising.
Her
videos start as demonstrations of the basics, then transcriptions of
popular songs that play in the background.
I thought this was a fun
way of seeing how Teeline works. I hope she keeps uploading.
I
still feel that I would need more of a detailed shape to indicate the
original word than what Teeline suggests I would write, so for my own
memory difficulties (improved note taking being why I'm trying to
learn shorthand in the first place) I may need to adapt it slightly.
But the initial constrictions of words that I've learned so far I
expect will give me a little more ability and speed. I'm beginning to
incorporate it into my handwriting already.
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