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TypeyType - Highly recommended, TypeyType is a drilling and learning resource with a large amount of practice material and detailed quantitative feedback. It includes lessons that follow the Learn Plover! book, top 100, 1,000 and 10,000 English words and the ability to create your own lessons. You can set it to read words out loud, too, using a built-in text-to-speech function, and TypeyType provides some progress tracking, too. In continual development, TypeyType is always improving and an absolute favorite within the Plover steno community!
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The Steno Grind - This is a no-frills yet effective steno practice companion site with lessons taken directly from Ted Morin's Art of Chording textbook.
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QwertySteno.com - This website explains steno, offers multiple lessons for beginning to learn steno and is designed specifically to use a standard QWERTY keyboard.
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Plover Dojo - A lovely visual approach to learning the keyboard and basic chords, designed specifically for use with a standard QWERTY keyboard.
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Students mustViewSpend at least 25 mins on this activityGo through the activity to the endReceive a gradeThe Harvard sentences are a collection of sample phrases that are used for standardized testing of Voice over IP, cellular, and other telephone systems. They are phonetically balanced sentences that use specific phonemes at the same frequency they appear in English, which happens to make them terrific steno practice!
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Typey Type has a simply fantastic collection of Proverbs and Proverbial phrases steno lessons - I highly recommend!
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Tongue twisters, long used to improve enunciation and build speaking skills, are also a terrific way to practice steno! Some of these are particularly good for dealing with word boundary issues and homophones.
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Armenian Legends and Poems compiled by Zabelle C. Boyajian (1916). This is the complete book set up with text/StenoJig only, no audio files (yet). This is mostly short poetry and folk songs but there are a few short prose pieces and a very long and informative article at the very end.
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From Fairy Tales from South Africa as arranged by Mrs. E.J. Bourhill and Mrs. J.B. Drake (1908) and read by Librivox volunteers.
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From Japanese Fairy Tales compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1908), Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn (date?), and Japanese Fairy World by William Elliot Griffis (1887), as read by Librivox volunteers.
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From Korean Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis (1922), as read by Librivox volunteers.
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From Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin (1890), as dictated by Librivox volunteers.
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Students mustMark as doneFrom Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines by W.E. Thomas (1923) and Australian Legendary Tales: Folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies collected by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker, as read by Librivox volunteers.
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From Legends of Maui - A Demi-God of Polynesia and of his Mother Hina by William Drake Westervelt and Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) by William Drake Westervelt (1915)
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From Folk-Lore and Legends: English by Charles John Tibbitts (date) and The Diamond Fairy Book by various (date), as read by Librivox volunteers. This page has myths and legends that don't fit into one of the other pages listed below.
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From The Coming of Lugh: A Celtic Wonder-Tale Retold by Ella Young (1909) and Celtic Fairy Tales selected and edited by Joseph Jacobs (date?), as read by Librivox volunteers.
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From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth W. Grierson (1910), as read by Librivox volunteers.
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From The Crystal Palace and Other Legends edited by Marie Harriette Frary and Charles Maurice Stebbins (1909) and The Diamond Fairy Book by various authors (date).
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From Myths from Many Lands selected & arranged by Eva March Tappan (1907), The Junior Classics, Volume 3: Tales from Greece and Rome edited by William Patten (1912), A Book of Myths by Jean Lang and Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin (date?), as read by Librivox volunteers.
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From Legends of Norseland edited by Mara L. Pratt (1894), Fairy Tales from the Far North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1897) and A Selection from The Norse Tales for the use of Children by G.W. Dasent, D.C.L (1862), as dictated by Librivox volunteers.
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Asgard Stories: Tales from North Mythology by Mabel H. Cummings and Mary H. Foster (1901), complete book. Most entries are text/StenoJig only, audio files in progress.
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From Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Parker Fillmore (1922), as read by Librivox volunteers.
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From Viking Tales by Jennie Hall (1902), as read by Librivox volunteers. (Complete book)
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From Persian Literature Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi and The Story of Rustem and Other Persian Hero Tales from Firdusi by Elizabeth D. Renninger (1901), as read by Librivox volunteers
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From A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legend, History, and Science by Henry Wysham Lanier (1922) as read by Librivox volunteers
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From Legends of the City of Mexico collected by Thomas A. Janvier (1910), as dictated by Librivox volunteers.
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From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Thomas William Rolleston (1910?) and Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory (1905)
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SCIENCE FICTION
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January 1961. "The Sacred Mushroom" deals with the discovery of mind-altering drugs. Newland travels to Mexico where he meets with a local shaman, an initiate in ritual use of magic mushrooms. This episode was controversial at the time, so it was never syndicated and has rarely been broadcast.
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A patient visiting a psychiatrist complains of recurrent dreams in which he imagines he is living in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Written by Rod Serling. Great video and audio quality, plenty of pauses with some occasional bursts of fast talking. Great story!
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