Originally Posted by
moondog
A common pitfall I've noticed over the years with adult Chinese learners is a tendency to over rely on pinyin as a guide to pronouncing words. Your ears are much more important in this regard. Just look at how masterfully a typical Filipino singer in China can nail Chinese songs that he/she has memorized; they didn't get there by staring at romanized Chinese.
I'm curious what you mean by this . . . do you mean too much effort to pronounce each pinyin sound separately, or mispronouncing the pinyin, which is not always intuitively pronounced from its english spelling?
(non-speaker here - just curious about your point, not arguing it).