Teeline Word List Pdf

[Margaretha Palone]

Whatmakes Teeline faster to write than normal longhand English? What do I need to focus on to get the most value out of my practice? How do I systematise the process to make it efficient, effective, and reviewable?

Teeline is so fast on three counts. Firstly, those squiggly lines are all abbreviated versions of the English alphabet. If you were to write Teeline outlines in full, they would likely be faster to write than the original longhand word.

I decided that for my speed-learning method to effectively increase my Teeline speed, it would need to cover these blends and abbreviations significantly enough to retain the blend rules in long-term memory. So a learning strategy formed from those assumptions.

There are many contending frequency lists online, and generally I would trust those from an academic source most. The downside is they are often not publicly available (got one for Welsh by asking Cardiff University) and are more technical, designed for linguistic research. The upside is they tend to be more accurate.

In retrospect being forced to manually write out the outlines was actually better news. I got to practice writing most outlines I will use regularly, while really thinking actively about why the outlines are as they are. Yes, it took around 8 hours to write in all my outlines and think about each one in turn. That was however 8 hours well spent, and it has cleared up many of the mistakes I was making after my weekend dash to learn Teeline in May.

Seeing as there seem to be only limited reference resources for Teeline available online, I thought I would share mine for free here. They are imperfect, but were hugely useful for me. Feel free to take my filled in version above, in all its imperfection and with my very own scraggly notes in the margins, but if you want to have a go at practicing 1000 words yourself, the empty version is below.

Blends are another way to speed up your shorthand. To avoid creating awkward shapes, which slow you down, you can cut out tricky parts of individual letters to create smoother, easier outlines. Some of these blends may involve one long line representing three letters (such as THR), which obviously speeds things up enormously.

Admittedly, this probably looks very similar to some of my earlier shorthand. I promise there are significant differences though! Even though they look quite subtle, they change the way you write shorthand quite dramatically. Prefixes and suffixes are added, the blends give you access to entire new categories of words, and to be honest, the word groupings and special outlines become insane.

What about Pittman shorthand method? Is it possible to achieve a speed of 140 words per minute in 2 months ? Please do tell if you have any idea. I am in a fix , have limited time and need it for a job i have been waiting for forever!

I had to learn shorthand within 6 weeks time for an upcoming test, searched types of it & them blew my senses

Then i landed on your webpage, and believe me if i tell you that only 10 hours or so into practicing teeline ,i am able to convert longhand words into teeline without referring

Also github/adxsoft/TeelineMate has been of great use

Thank you

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I have wanted to write for a living ever since I learned my ABCs. But little did I know that I would have to relearn the alphabet as part of my quest to become a journalist. Since most U.K. news outlets oblige reporters to have an NCTJ shorthand qualification, I was taught Teeline shorthand as part of my diploma at the London-based journalism school News Associates.

Once we had the basic building blocks down, we practiced writing alongside exam passages at the talking speed of 60-words-per-minute. But writing outlines is only half the battle with shorthand; you need to be able to read what you wrote to transcribe shorthand back to longhand (ordinary handwriting)! Practicing shorthand was very different to my experiences practicing French at secondary school. Since it is such a technical language and relies on drilling for speed development, it was a pressurized learning environment focused around passing exams from the very first day. My secondary school French lessons had been laidback sociable affairs where we watched Friends with subtitles and completed word searches at a leisurely pace.

As an adult learner with more developed study skills, learning shorthand was less frustrating than trying to wrap my head around French verb conjugations as a teenager. Still, there was a lot of social pressure to progress at a certain rate each week and eventually obtain the industry standard. My classmates were my competition: I would be pitted against them for work in the future and so there was definitely a sense of rivalry in our lessons, which felt very different from the more supportive classical language classroom. But this competitive atmosphere was also a useful motivator.

Perhaps sensing our waning enthusiasm, our tutor Emily got us to compete with one another to see who could transcribe a passage with the fewest errors. Each week an atmosphere of intense concentration would fall over us all as Emily hit play on the exam passage. We furiously scribbled, and then we were given time after the recording finished to transcribe our shorthand back into longhand. We would all stand up and read one word of our transcription, with anyone who missed a word or got a word wrong forced to sit down. It was a case of the last person standing; I frequently found myself in the final three, only to be foiled by an unintelligible scribble at the last moment.

As I was a commuting student, the bulk of my shorthand practice took place on public transport. I got lots of strange looks from people I was sitting next to or opposite on the train; one gentleman asked if I was writing Arabic. Another elderly lady switched seats once she saw me scribbling away, perhaps concerned for my sanity!

Undeterred by the strangers who gave me quizzical looks, eventually my muscle memory improved and I got faster and faster. I started listening to 70-, 80- and 90-words-per-minute exam passages, gearing up to take the 100-words-per-minute exam. I passed the exam on my second attempt, but for many others it takes more effort to obtain the coveted industry gold-standard NCTJ qualification: the pass rate for the 100-words-per-minute exam in the 2018-19 period was just 24 percent, out of 1,378 sittings.

Passing the 100-words-per-minute exam is particularly important if you want to be a local news reporter as you will be expected to cover courts, where recording devices are not allowed. It takes many trainee journalists multiple attempts to pass their shorthand exams, but those who end up working in local news find it is worth the struggle.

Now that I have passed the exam I try to keep up to speed by jotting down lyrics from my favorite songs or excerpts from podcasts in shorthand. I also practice outlines when watching television, the same way that people watch other language cinema to develop their language skills.

Beth Kirkbride is a gold-standard NCTJ-accredited freelance journalist with bylines in Metro, Cosmopolitan, The Telegraph and others. She graduated with an English Language and Literature degree from the University of Oxford in 2018, and she's currently based in Sheffield, England.

Teeline is a shorthand system developed in 1968 by James Hill,[1] a teacher of Pitman Shorthand.[2] It is accepted by the National Council for the Training of Journalists, which certifies the training of journalists in the United Kingdom.[2]

It is mainly used for writing English within the Commonwealth of Nations, but can be adapted for use by other Germanic languages such as German and Swedish. Its strength over other forms of shorthand is fast learning, and speeds of up to 150 words per minute are possible,[3] as it is common for users to create their own word groupings, increasing their speed.[2]

Teeline shorthand is a streamlined way to transcribe the spoken word quickly by removing unnecessary letters from words and making the letters themselves faster to write.[2] Vowels are often removed when they are not the first or last letter of a word, and silent letters are also ignored.[2] Common prefixes, suffixes, and letter groupings (such as "sh" and "ing") are reduced to single symbols. The symbols themselves are derived from old cursive forms of the letters, with unnecessary parts removed.[2] Unlike phonetics-based shorthands, such as Pitman, Teeline is a spelling-based system.

Teeline differs from many shorthand systems by basing itself on the alphabet as opposed to phonetics, making it simpler to learn but also carrying the speed limitations of the alphabet when compared to other systems.[2] However, it is common to find some phonetics spellings used. For example, ph is often just written as an f, so the word phase would be written as if it were spelt fase. This coincides with the creator's intentions of streamlining it as much as possible.[2] As with many shorthand systems, there are few strict rules on how to write it, so it is common for users to make personal adaptations for their own use.[2] Certain letters also have specific meanings as well as their traditional alphabetic value, as shown in the table below.

Teeline eliminates unnecessary letters, so that the remaining letters can be written in one swift, sweeping movement. People who use it daily will run words together: proficient users develop their own forms for common phrases, such as "more and more people" and "in the end".[4]

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