http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2012/04/cinema-4d-for-absolute-beginners/
http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2011/10/intro-to-modeling-in-cinema-4d-par...
there are more
lynda.com has paid tutorials that many say are at a relatively low level not too expensive.
cineversity.com has many free tutorials
Tim Shetz has some tutorials for beginners on his site c4dtraining.com
and a search in google for "c4d tutorials beginner" brings up lots, I can't vouch for any of them as I haven't seen any of them but there are many out there.
