Can you "read" the "pronounciation characters"?

[Uberjager]

I'm talking about the words in dictionaries all hyphenated with the characters, that tell you how to pronounce a word. Can any of you book-worms read them?

[newracer]

Um yes, there is a key that explains how each is pronounced at the beginning of the dictionary.

[spleify]

Yes, thats how you know how to pronounce the word.... [Coffee]

[Bailey Guns]

Not only can I read them but I know the secret handshake, too...

[Byte Stryke]

Not only can I read them but I know the secret handshake, too...

I also have the secret decoder ring

[Graves]

Yep, learnd um n middol skool.

[BPTactical]

Yep, learnd um n middol skool.

I lernt to spel thar two Mike!

[Ronin13]

Yep, learnd um n middol skool.

They don't teach that any more... I never learned in school how to do that, I had to learn by looking in the beginning of the dictionary.