Chinese Language simple words with Pinyin

With capability of Pinyin, let's learn to read some words:
http://youtu.be/ubZS7i34GIY
http://youtu.be/Bwq97JhQkcU
Here you need not to follow everything she said, just familiarize yourself with words pronunciation with Pinyin.

Also some basic sentences (Survival mandarin lesson):
http://youtu.be/OwL078TKy2E (lesson 1)
http://youtu.be/fp06OxAMaIc (lesson 2)
http://youtu.be/Z4E0phTl1ZA (lesson 3)

After some practice with above videos, you may learn words by yourself through online Chinese-English dictionaries:
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php (short simple version)
http://www.nciku.com/ (complete version)

For Chinese text input on a computer, you may use default ones Microsoft offered with OS, or a much better one http://youtu.be/iY8GF3-3JWk , or input online http://www.baidu.com/ (demoed at http://youtu.be/nrJe2u1tBEM). Please refer to http://daytodaychinese.net/ToolsLink.aspx for useful tool links.

If you have questions, just put them in comments. I'll try my best to answer them.
For complete list of lessons, please visit http://daytodaychinese.net/Default.aspx?Level=1.