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Take a ton of pictures that aren't snapshots.
This will be a lot better than taking a class which will teach you how to take pictures that are just like everybody else's pictures ... develop your own style based on fun and abandon.
If your "good" camera is film, get a cheap digital and start clicking. Being able to do your "processing" yourself, essentially for free, will allow you to take more pics and will reduce the learning curve. Have the good camera with you in case you see that "perfect shot".
(FWIW, I learned on a plastic 120 camera, eventually upgraded to a 35mm (Pentax K1000 which I still have and still works great, and I use more often than the succession of automatic cameras, including an Advanced Photo System camera I found very frustrating. At least I never succumbed to the lure of the disk film format. The ease of digital is seductive, though)
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