Lessons

Joan McGrath uses the curriculum written by Michele Frizzell and Debi Barnett. She has taught community group beginners classes in a four-week, 90 minute/week format that allows the students to learn and absorb the complexities of the game in relaxed, slow immersion sessions. Joan’s approach is to move the student into the “deeper waters” of Mah Jongg just a bit at a time, much the way parents bring children to the beach to experience the ocean, toes first, then up to the knees, then waist, etc. By the end of the four weeks, students can play competently and quite often are able to claim their first Mah Jongg within three or four sessions. Within the last four years, Joan has taught close to 400 people in the Lower Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore.