if you have any hand-foot coordination at all then you can learn how to perfectly drive a manual in about a week of good driving. and once you learn, you don't even have to think about it anymore so don't worry about that part of your question.

about not knowing much about cars, the only way to learn more is to read up and do things with your car yourself. i've been into hondas/acuras for a couple years now but when i started i didn't know anything.