If you rely solely on standard spelling, you lose. You need a map. You need the IPA.
Here is why YouTube beats every other method for learning IPA symbols: Youtube - Ipa
Enter YouTube. Before YouTube, learning IPA meant buying expensive CD-ROMs or listening to grainy audio tapes. Now, you have an infinite, free library of pronunciation coaches. If you rely solely on standard spelling, you lose
Try to hear the difference between the flap /ɾ/ (like in "butter" - American accent) and a normal /t/ . You can slow the video to 0.5x speed to isolate the sound. you have an infinite