Hi Saiyah,

I teach a lot of lefty beginners in the "real world". I always encourage them to play a standard guitar (not a lefty guitar). With very rare exceptions, this works out just fine. The fact is that playing the guitar requires both of your hands to learn all sort of new moves, so there is not much gained in my opinion by learning on a lefty guitar.

The upside to learning to play "rightie" is that all the guitar music you encounter will be readable without you having to translate it in your head to a lefty interpretation. Also, pretty much any guitar you encounter (at a friends' house, a party, a store), you can pick up and play. Lefties who learn on a lefty guitar are limited to those fairly rare guitars.

My two cents! Hope it helps!
-Lisa McCormick, Guitar Tricks Instructor