The best advice is to get a local person who knows how to fly to hlp you learn.

If you're really lucky, you'll find someone who'll come over and help with constrcting the aircraft. (assembling the ARF...) This prevents a LOT of confusion and problems when trying to interpret the instructions. It also helps avoid the error one beginner made recently of using FAST set epoxy for the dihedral braces.
(he almost got it together and the fast epoxy set up... 1/4 inch between wing panels. oops... Not an easy fix.)

there's a BOATLOAD of tips and tricks...