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🔥 Want the full Gregg Shorthand course, printable reading and writing practice sheets, weekly office hours, and a community to keep you accountable? Join my Skool community here: https://www.skool.com/learn-gregg-shorthand-7656/about It’s the best place to learn Gregg Shorthand today. This lesson continues directly from the previous video and explains how Gregg shorthand strokes are systematically distinguished...not by memorization, but by structure. Gregg strokes are differentiated using three variables: sound, size, and direction. Sounds that are produced in the same part of the mouth share related forms. For example, the [k] and [g] sounds are both velar consonants, so their strokes are grouped together and derived from the same curve. Meaning is then differentiated by size. A shorter stroke represents [k], while a longer version of the same form represents [g], typically occupying twice the writing space. Finally, strokes are categorized by the direction in which they are written—left motion, right motion, forward, upward, etc. This allows outlines to flow smoothly and remain legible at speed. Once these three dimensions are understood, Gregg shorthand stops being a collection of symbols and becomes a coherent system. This lesson sets the foundation for combining strokes confidently and beginning real shorthand writing.