Teeline Fast Shorthand

This is a course to take you from novice to a Pitman Teeline shorthand speed of 40 words per minute. To be able to use Teeline Fast, you need to choose carefully among the Teeline shorthand courses - and you've found the very best. Beginning with the basics - the alphabet - we'll lead you gently into shorthand Teeline style step-by-step, moving on to give you full confidence in the workplace.

Why use Pitman Training to learn Teeline shorthand? Because ours is a self-study course and you'll have the flexibility to work at your own pace - and to make sure you stay up to speed, you can use online dictation exercises.

You'll complete your training with a workbook to keep as a handy reference guide - and you'll have all the benefits of the widely-recognised Pitman Training name on your CV.

Through a series of self-paced lessons you'll learn the theory of the Teeline shorthand system and eventually be able to write up to 40 wpm.

This course is perfect for anyone wanting to learn a shorthand system - Fast!

There are fourteen lessons in this course: -

Lesson One: The Teeline Alphabet from A to M.

Lesson Two: The Teeline Alphabet from N to Z.

Lesson Three: Join letters T, D and F, punctuation marks, short sentences.

Lesson Four: Joining S, word endings, soft C.

Lesson Five: Downward and upward short L, special use of L, joining the letter B to letters G and N, joining the letter J with B, C and K, outlines with R followed by M.

Lesson Six: More common word outlines, writing outlines for words beginning WH, grouping words together to form one outline, transcribing a short passage from dictation.

Lesson Seven: The use of vowels, more vocabulary using vowels.

Lesson Eight: Outlines to represent double vowels, vowel indicators for word endings, simple word groupings.

Lesson Nine: Blend letters, lengthening L, M and W to add R, extending the use of R, writing further special outlines.

Lesson Ten: Words ending with –TION, more blends, common word groupings.

Lesson Eleven: Words using the CM, CN and CNV blends, outlines for words ending –NCE, additional special outlines.

Lesson Twelve: Shortened outlines for word beginnings, more special outlines and word groupings.

Lesson Thirteen: Using full vowels to form word endings, abbreviations for different word endings, Teeline outlines for figures and dates, days of the week and months of the year.

Lesson Fourteen: Further vocabulary, more simple and common words, additional word groupings, consolidation.

Our Teeline Fast course is part of our distance learning range – which can be accessed online via our distance learning portal.