You should be learning English or other languages​​, first learning the alphabet letters, Chinese characters are composed of different letters, the formation of different characters.

Definitely, you do. But you can start from those easy pinyin and charactors. It's not very difficult, come on^_^

Yes, you do.

yeah,u should learn it first,its a basic of Chinese

It is true that there are various of sounds in Chinese, but you just need to memorise the sounds of these letters(listed below): a o e i u ü b p m f d t n l g k h j q x zh ch sh r z c s y w ai ei ui ao ou iu ie üe er an en in un ün ang eng ing ong Don't you think they look like phonetic symbols in English? Every pinyin is composed by 1 or 2 of them(sometimes is 3). For example, 1. 昂（拼音：áng），sounds like /aŋ/ 2. 好（拼音：hǎo） ，sounds like /hau/ 3. 远（拼音：yuǎn），sounds like /iuan/ You can find some video to learn how to read them. I hope these can help you.