usmbguest5318
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Both. I learned initially from my family who needed a forth, so they taught me. I continued my learning at school when I hooked up with some classmates to form a bridge club.My suggestion is that you reach out to a bridge club that is convenient to you and make contact with other bridge players in your area.
So how did you learn? Reading or playing?
In the club, we all played a lot, and at least once every week or two or three, we covered a new Goren chapter/topic and did our best to apply the new learnings as we played in the intervening days between "instructive" club meetings. As you might expect, we played practice games with "cheat sheets," sometimes even pages torn from Goren, on the card table, and we played competitive games without our them.
Playing bridge is like having sex. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
-- Woody Allen (emphasis shifted)
-- Woody Allen (emphasis shifted)
Unrelated reflective aside:
Turned out being a bridge club member was one of the most useful pursuits of my and my classmates' youth for, in a move that we thought was "cool beans," the teachers who participated in the club let us have full ownership of the instruction sessions. We all got exposure to leadership, collaboration, public speaking and a variety of other practical experiences that were good foundations for developing skills we had to adroitly exhibit later in high school and college.