>>I think you are a very good person to ask questions when learning French. As I find that people who learned a language (and not native) are often times better at explaining to beginners.
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>I seem to recall being told somewhere (memory says it was while in the Army, but I'm not sure about that) that the best person to teach a class is the honor graduate from the previous class. As honor graduate he knows the material. As someone who has only recently learned the material he understands the problems facing the new students.
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>Teaching takes real skill beyond knowledge of the subject. For people just learning to play bridge, I've found that the best teachers are rarely expert players and that expert players are rarely good teachers. They just "know" the right thing to do and can't explain it in a way the novice can understand.
Good point.
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