[biocit]

It's the same thing in Chinese. You can learn the chinese alphabet, or you can learn the romanized alphabet. In the long run, it makes no difference which one you use. When I say, "Wo men zou ba," people who know the romanized form can tell me exactly what it sounds like. It makes no difference which one you use.

If you want to learn Chinese "properly", then yeah, you should learn the Chinese alphabet. But, learning the romanized version will never warp your accent. (It'll be just as bad or good as how you speak it while reading the "proper" Chinese alphabet.

Going clubbing tonight, c ya.