As a newbie, it is important that ypu identify yourself with your local board, because it will enable you to learn in your local language which might help you understand topics being discussed in the forum faster, and it will also make you grow faster, especially those people that English Language is their second language. Local board will make you also have good contact and have new friends from your country because, life doesn't end here in bitcointalk, since nobody knows tomorrow.
True, I know much about technical wallets and how to save in Bitcoin from my local board. In the local board, you will not encounter a language barrier, and you can ask detailed questions there without being afraid of not being understood. But, specifically in my local board (Indonesia), I think that board is pretty tight, there are many reporters who can report you if you are a spammer. I have to be careful posting there because if you deviate from the rule you will be warned, and because of that many Indonesian members are unwilling to post in there and get around to creating a new account just to ask a silly question.