CG Fast Track offers a high-quality introduction to Blender video series.
They broke it down into three parts that not only explain the basics, but will also leave you satisfied with some rather cool results:
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
