This is fast becoming a lost art with so many automatic transmissions on the road today. However, driving a standard transmission can be great fun! First, you need to determine the shift pattern of the standard transmission. Usually, the shift pattern is posted somewhere near the stick shift. On antique or classic cars, you may not have a pattern posted; but you can figure it out pretty quick with the car turned off. Push the stick shift up and down, left and right and see how many different positions it will go into. Subtract one of the positions for Reverse, and the remaining positions are forward moving gears. Most common transmissions will have 3, 4, or 5 gears to go forward. A high end car like a Porsche may have more (I wouldn't recommend learning to drive standard on a high end car....) Starting with 1st Gear, as you accellarate you shift into higher gears. Usually 5th gear is reserved for highway driving and is called Overdrive. Look down at the drivers floor. You'll notice three pedals down there. The brake and the gas peddle are the same for all cars. The magic third peddle is the clutch. Some clutchs are very easy to depress. Some aren't (such as on larger trucks). I recommend learning on an easy clutch. Finally, pick a long, empty road to practice on. A farm road or something works well. Practice getting the car to go forward, then shifting. Don't ride the clutch...take your foot off it between shifts. Oh yeah, most speedometers have little tick marks to tell you when to shift. Don't rev the engine up to redline waiting to shift. Bad form, bad for the engine, and really twerks off the owner of the car you're driving.