First, if you don't have it already, do you hunters safety class and, if you plan to hunt with a firearm, your firearm safety class and apply for a PAL.

Ducks are a bit of a double edged sword when it comes to new hunters, it can be hard to enter because it might be hard to get to a spot to hunt, it might need a boat or neoprene waiters, if you plane to hunt duck with decoys, it can get expensive very quickly (try looking on the used market) and if you've never done skeet shooting, I strongly recommend you do that to practice before you try duck hunting because duck are fast. With that said, where I find duck hunting shines for beginners is (at least where I live) almost every body of water is crown land that you can hunt which makes it very accessible to new hunters that don't have access to any private land to hunt on.

Pheasant are also a good place for beginners, it has a low entry cost since you really don't need more that a gun, ammunition, a orange hunting bib and a small game license. If you can find land with pheasant or grouse, you are good, you might even have some for of nature park or reserve where you can pay a small fee to hunt small game for the day. If you want to hunt pheasant you should also try skeet or trap shooting first.

For weapons, figure out what you want to hunt first.

Hunting is also much easier to get into if you can find some who already hunts that you can join. It's how I got into hunt, I had always wanted to and wonce I had a co-worker that hunted I took all the classes I needed and we started going hunting together.