Hi and welcome!
Chris here.
Hmm.
Start with the Syma x5c, it's great, I've recommended it, or the U818A, which is bigger but also rock steady, or the Hubsan X4 (I started on this one, still have it) or the Nano QX. Then fly the heck out of it. Buy at least 6 batteries and this charger:
http://amzn.to/2lKhenb , then learn the difference between nose-out and nose-in flying, pitch/roll/yaw, and all the other basics of piloting an aircraft. Stay indoors if you can, probably the room with the least amount of breakable things in it - mine turned out to be our bedroom - and do at least one battery a day, every day.
Speed of learning isn't an issue - nobody knows, cares, or notices how long you took to learn how to walk, or if you crawled a lot on the way, but they sure notice if you don't walk right. You have to burn the correct techniques in at the body core level, because you need to develop the correct instincts that will get you out of trouble (and of course you have to be able to recognize potential sources of trouble before they ever get going and knock them on the head).
There's no amount of reading that will let you be able to do, say, a pirouette or a backflip by yourself, perfectly, the first time. This is that kind of thing. Every action needs to be repeated a minimum of 66 times in order to transfer the body knowledge from the conscious part of the brain, the forebrain (cerebrum) to the unconscious, automatic part of the brain (the medulla oblongata). Like walking, talking. Speaking a new language. Driving a car. The FAA has found that it takes around 12 hours in the air for a new pilot to be confident and able enough to fly solo, and most young pilots take twice that amount of stick time. That's only one full day, but that's a day in the air, counted per 10th of an hour (6 minutes), in the air.
If a drone battery lasts for 12 minutes, let's say, that's 5 flights per hour, and so 60 battery-charge-flights for 12 hours. Like I said, around 66 times to get good at the basics. That's a battery a day for around two months.
That's without exception. Even Einstein couldn't just stand up and walk, first time. Every human has this limitation in body learning. This is a physical skill, and like any skill, let's take riding a bicycle, it's easy come easy go until that magical 66 times. After that, the body never forgets, and one can still ride a bike immediately, after years of not. But it takes that many repetitions (60, plus or minus 10%) to burn the knowledge in there. We've known about this for a very long time, it's just that folk throughout time seem to want to believe the movies that say they're The Chosen One, and take the helicopter-pill and voila - instant pilot. They get a thing right one time, and think they've nailed it, for life.
Well, they're wrong.
Think about the number of exams you've crammed for. Think of all the answers you once knew for long enough to pass those exams, but have now forgotten again, and how fast you forgot them.
Then think of what you still remember, years or decades after you learned it. Think of the difference between the fleeting knowledge and the permanent one.
If you're going to be flying something, better not make that the fleeting type of knowledge. Better burn it in, properly, once and for all. Quality stick time, pilots call it.
Try for precision, not speed. Start simple, but precise. just spend a battery hovering, nose-out, at eye height. plus or minus a foot. Then plus or minus six inches. Then three inches. Then open a window and do the same thing. Then do it nose in (the aircraft pointed back at you) and then nose to the left, then to the right.
Move on from there, to translations, landings and takeoffs (touch-and-go's), and then start "walking the dog" to get into coordinated turns. Then do it nose-in. Then run the dog, forwards, and then backwards.
That's about a couple weeks' quality stick time, minimum, to get anywhere near right, right there.
There's lots of Youtube videos, online tutorials and even live coaches and mentors to be had. Get into it, read and watch them all, do the basics, and go with what you feel is right for you.
Or don't - get a coach. I did, when I started, just a couple of lessons to get me started on the right path, save me stumbling around in the beginning. Money well spent, bad stick time saved.
HTH
JM2c
YMMV etc
Best
Chris