Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
Originally Posted By: Faldaroony
you surely need to be a trained phonetician


I learned all about phonetics, phonology, and the IPA in a 3-unit, 10-week undergraduate course at university. It was nowhere near the toughest course I've taken within my linguistics major or without.


Great. So it's easy to be a trained phonetician. If you've got a phonetician training center handy. And if you think you should need to take a training course to be able to read a dictionary.