make sure you realize that many players have thousands of hours playing the game. Don't get too frustrated with losing. It happens.
1. PLEASE LET PEOPLE KNOW YOUR NEW!!!!!!!!!!
2. Join the steam chat and advertise your "newbie" game
3. Practice 1v1 as much as you can. It is the single best way to focus and practice. team games are so chaotic and you can be attacked by so many different angles and what not. I wouldn't suggest it.
4. After a good 1v1 battle post your replay and some of us can give you tips.
5. stick with one race and try to really understand it.
Gorilla's post sums it up quite well.
There's nothing more frustrating than getting in a match where your ally is very new to the game which singlehandely will result in a game loss because they can't pull their weight. It's different being out-played...most people have played against everybody 1 time or another but generally you have regulars to play alongside.
My advise very much goes alongside Gorillas
1. Find a group of new comers and begin playing together. This in itself will make the game more enjoyable for you. As you will all be around the same level of gameplay, and you will also begin to form a nice clique that when your all playing together will come to have more enjoyment than playing with strangers because you know each other. Get on T.S. talk with one another. There's no point in playing any game if your not playing with people you like or have no sense of idea who they are.
2. Play every race and character and find out which feels right for you.. I know Gorilla said pick one race and get good at it... and that is true, but Honestly, you want 3 races. This way you and the people you are playing against dont get bored of playing as or against the same race all the time. This will help improve your knowledge of the different factions as well in what they are or are not strong against. You also need 3 commanders if you want to enter tournaments later down the line so having 3 is perfect.
3. 2v2s and 3v3s are the games where micro, map awareness, and micro at times, aren't as necessarily stressed because of how you are split into thin lanes or gathered in large groups. You will develop everything in 1v1s that you need to carry you. Moreover if you haven't learned how to keybind your hotkeys, I'd advise doing so, because hotkeys make for a huge difference in micro.. And the best way to learn the hotkeys is to play against an AI in 1v1s for a little while until you become somewhat confident with the key locations.
4. While you can post replays of yourself... I personally found the best way to learn was to make a notepad and put down everything I was learning from engagements, to set ups, to builds, strengths and weaknesses of commanders and units. I always been the type of person where, only by truly coming to breakdown what you see yourself and bring it in to your own terms will you truly understand how to improve. So ideally as an example
You play SM
write up what you know generically are the strengths and weaknesses of SM
-then go deeper and write up on the commander you play
-then go deeper and dwelve into specific match-ups, and begin writing down what you know is very strong and struggles hard against that faction/commander
- keep going until you've played them all and have a mainstay idea about playing against each of the factions
- Finally begin to brainstorm builds that might work against them, from my knowledge there is always a safe build for each faction against any faction, but when you get to become a stronger player, you will find yourself sometimes going outside that because you have knolwedge to know that while something may not be strong in t1 later down the line with knowledge that I will be bringing out a said unit, then this unit will become a very strong unit to have on the field/with upgrades in time.
Hope this helps, and WELCOME
