Chinese does not officially have letters as each word is written with a charchter called 汉字 hanzi . However there is a system called 拼音pinyin. This is used to help chinese children learn to prounance the words and is also helpful for them to write at school etc before they know enough 汉字。While it is useful to know pinyin as it can really help with prounancing new words, typing and looking them up in a dictionary for example, it is not ideal to only learn 拼音 as many chinese words have the same pinyin spellings and it can be very confusing to read unles you are fluent in chinese. Also oftern pinyin is written without any indication as to what tone the word is in where as with the hanzi what word is being said is defainte, ie if i wrote ma， ma， ma， ma would you know which ma I meant but if I wrote 马 吗 妈 麻 the word and therefore the tone is known. There are sevreal good sites that can help you learn pinyin sounds just type learn pinyin or 学拼音 into a search engine like google. However i do suggest you start to learn to read and use hanzi right from the start of your studies as this is the correct way to write chinese and is how most chinese people will prefer to communicate. There are also some very good fun videos on sites like you tube and yoku for learning pinyin. just type them into the search boxes. some sites that may help are http://www.instantspeakchinese.com/pinyin/ http://www.chineselearner.com/pinyin/ http://www.61flash.com/list/515_1.htm http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjYwMDgwOA==.html

ya , so gald to see you . i am a Chinese people , who are know a lot about Chinese culture , and my english is also good , for i just graduated from my universty. if i am so lucky ,i can help you on Chinese , for this also can practice my spoken english. thank you !

Good luck on you Chinese studies. There are many native mandarin speakers here that would jump at the chance to help a foreigner study chinese. Just remember learning a language is a life long experience. one with ups and downs.加油!

I can help you with your Chinese and Chinese culture.but my English is a little poor.