Someone asked me if I would teach them Talmud. I said "How could I refuse such a question? Even if the Dali Lama would ask me, I would have to oblige." Still, it is best to put yourself in a environment of people that are good at it, and to whom what the Talmud says matters. It is in a way like an apprenticeship. That is: during the Middle Ages, there was a thing as an apprentice that would be given to a guild at the age of five, and all he would do for years would be to sweep and cook and clean. But just by hanging around with experts, something would get absorbed. Then after some time like that, they would start to teach him. After some time, he would become an expert. Talmud is like that. There is something going on inside that you just will not be able to see by just reading the words. You need to learn from an expert. [I was in Caalifornia and I used to go after school to the yeshiva of the son of Rav Elchanan Wasserman (Simcha Wasserman). After high school when it got to be time to go to yeshiva, Reb Shimcha suggested I call Shelomo Friefeld who had a yeshiva in NY, Shar Yashuv. So I was there for 3 and half years, and after that I was in the Mir in NY also for about three years and then I came tto Israel. ]