Thanks all for the clarification! It adds to my belief that starting (or even bothering at all) with Pinyin is not the ideal way to learn chinese.

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My "guide" to become stronger in Go

I have a book for learning Chinese. "Learn Chinese Through Song", it has the song and melody with pinyin and English, then some pages with the translation and characters. I wish there was a Go book like this. With the pinyin, English and characters plus some explanation of the translation and diagram in English, it would probably be popular amongst Chinese as well.