Shorthand: My Flashcards

Introduction

Things are going OK in my learning of Gregg shorthand. One of the key learning techniques I use is to create flashcards. I review them on the subway or when I’m out watching Byron play.

I’ve created a couple decks now. I’ve built a table of the words below so that you can see how to progress.

Here’s a little about each deck:

• Batch 1: Learning the forms and trying to memorize the letters. Very basic. Spent a good while here.

• Batch 2: Didn’t spend very long here, fused these into Batch 1 as soon as I was able to master Batch 1

• Batch 3: This was my jam for a long time. I eventually go tto the point of being able to know the form between local stops on the 1 line in Manhattan. That’s going through a deck pretty quickly. I built this list by taking the most common words in English and associating the form with it from the Gregg dictionary. After getting strong with these, I was really able to write complete day-to-day throughts…although not that fast.

• Batch 4: Expanding out on Batch 3, it has many of the basics, but also many of the word drills included in the first 7 chapters of Gregg. Also at this time I’ve created Batch 5 which is words that come up when I’m taking notes. I predict a similar patter as 1/2 recurring here. As I lock 4 in 5 will meld into it. I’ve also split the sections into differently colored blocs for grouping between chapters. The number before the word is the chapter whence the word came.

The Table