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Basic Steps to Learn Shorthand: Learn thoroughly the alphabets, brief forms, phrases, word families; how to connect the words effectively. Practice by copying printed materials and taking down voice tapes and be able to read/transcribe them. Challenge yourselves from difficult materials. Whenever there are speeches on TV try your best to take them down. How long does to learn shorthand, entirely depends on how motivated you are. The sheer joy of learning it would be your reward.

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You are not answering the actual question. – Jan Doggen Apr 23 at 17:43

I learned Pitman's at college in 3 months, with a further 6 months to get up to usable speed (120 wpm). As I believe Pitman's is probably slightly more complicated than Gregg, this would seem to be a reasonable time to expect if you study and practise most days. The more you practise, the faster you will reach whatever speed goal you have in mind. I found that the more quickly you can get through the studying, the better the result, as you don't end up forgetting the lessons, which would tend to happen if there are long gaps between study periods. The period could be much shorter than that, if you only wanted to match longhand speed, which is about 20-30 wpm.

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The Wikipedia article you mentioned mentions:




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