When I was taught to drive, the vast majorirty of people in Europe drive manuals, I was taught that when learning you should drive like a priest say, very slowly and economically. In a manual this means changing up at low revs. Just go with this for starters. Get yourself in a carpark at night and try my suggestion. What you want to do to learn is change up every 10mph or so (this would be between 2-2500rpm) so at 30 mph youd be in 4th. OK its easy.
The trick in changing down is that you wanna be in 2nd on slower corners. So say if you were going under 20mph you ideally want to be in 2nd.
Just go with it, your not going to break it. Like I said try an empty carpark or industrial estate at night. Just learn the car, you'll be fine.
At least you haven't got a clutch to think about
