How to learn chinese

What is “pinyin”?Pinyin is the Romanization (using “abc” alphabet) of Chinese words to assist foreigners with learning the language.There are other systems to express Mandarin, but Pinyin is the most accepted and widely used. Once you learn Pinyin you will know how to pronounce any word in Mandarin using a Chinese dictionary. Pinyin is also the most common way to input Chinese characters into a computer. Although Pinyin and English both use the Roman alphabet, many letters are not expressed with the same sounds that English uses.

If you want to read chinese,you should study pinyin first! Want to konw more about pinyin,please visite wiki:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin.