> As someone from mainland China and learned pinyin in grade 1 of primary school, which happened in early 90s, in Beijing, I use pinyin daily, for inputting Chi

> As someone from mainland China and learned pinyin in grade 1 of primary school, which happened in early 90s, in Beijing, I use pinyin daily, for inputting Chinese into electronic devices. Do you think learning Pinyin first threw off your early pronunciation of English? If people learned their languages in unique phonetic characters, would they be more likely to focus on learning the new sounds of other languages?