~~You should learn Pinyin or Bopomofo first，it just like the international phonetic symbol.for exampl,if you know the /sh/ and /u/,then you will know 书 孰 属 术etc these words‘s pronunciations after you learned tone pitch of ChineseO(∩_∩)O~

Congratulations on wanting to study chinese. as for where to begin first...it depends on how serious you are in learning the language. If your aim is to study for an official chinese language exam like HSK then I suggest you pick a good chinese language series of books to do that not just some "laowai" chinese phrase book at your local bookstore. The Short-term spoken chinese series from the beijing language and culture university press is good. also if you are planning to take chinese lessons find out where your teacher is from (accents can make a difference in your learning), what kind of degree they have (like 对外汉语 teach chinese as a second language) and find out what method they use to teach plus the content of their course. This is to see if it suits your requirements. Also look for language partners and make sure the language teaching/speaking time is equal. Not just 3 minutes of chinese and two hours of english. You want to help your language partner but you want to learn too. Good luck in your chinese studies

forget all laws of your mother language.

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i think you should learn oral Chiense first