I use Pinyin too! Part of the reason is that it's the only way I know to key in chinese characters into computers. For some reason I never got the chance to learn how to use strokes to input chinese characters.
The hard part about learning chinese is that there's thousands of characters that can be used in a lot of different ways. A beginner might be turned off by having to memorize so many different words/ characters which is actually very understandable. Here's hoping the passion for learning got everyone through the hard stages!
This is all new to me, even though I learn chinese from a young age. Maybe it's because these are phrases exclusive to China I guess. Anyway, thanks for sharing! I learn something new now!
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090421182722AAPcK0g From what I gather here, they basically considered the pinyin to be the english address. Why don't you post the address and let me try to convert it to pinyin?