I recommend to learn 'C' right away. You'd just be wasting time learning a scripting language as you'll probably want to learn 'C' at some point anyway.
Having to "unlearn" the stuff you learned before and then having to relearn the 'C' way of doing things would probably be harder than if you'd just went straight to 'C' in the first place.
Don't listen to people saying its too hard - 'C' is really very simple and powerful language once you've grasped the basic concepts of the language.
Good luck!
