I studied English and French 2 decades before affordable computers and speech synthesizers. Reading IPA for a single language is not all hard. You just get used

I studied English and French 2 decades before affordable computers and speech synthesizers. Reading IPA for a single language is not all hard. You just get used to the symbols needed in that language. If you take a random language and believe that you can pronounce it correctly by reading IPA, well that won't work. Or at least be very hard.