heres how you learn to drice manual....find a friend with a manual(preferbaly a truck, or beater car, reason i say this is becuase i ive int he "country", lol whole town is a dessert, so we just go on dirt roads) go to the outskirts of town, and just drive around weres theres not a lof traffic, practice everything, stopping, shifiting, down shifting, hills, all that, its free, fun as hell, and you learn in a day