Learning Chinese for Kung Fu?

[wenshu]

don't bet on it.

It is dependent upon the persons preferred learning style.
Some people learn well from reading, others from hearing, others from hands on approach, others from mimicry and inculcation and so on and of course combinations of those.

if you can read a pronunciation key, then you can do it.

I'm not scrubbing your idea, just saying that it is not the only way.

Language Acquisition Fail.