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Originally Posted by komitsuki
Well, it's an English-based dictionary... so it's okay to use an alternative pronunciation instead for Korean loanwords.
I keep emphasizing this because I've seen a lot of English-speaking people learning Korean and their immediate difficulty is the pronunciation of some vowels and consonants.
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The missing sounds do not seem as difficult for people to learn as those that are only slightly varied. I am often assisting with this for both sides of the dynamic (Koreans perfecting their English and Americans learning Korean). If there is a completely new sound it is usually picked up fairly quickly, given plenty of practice and examples. But the more subtle differences, such as emphasis on doubled consonants in Hangul and voiced/unvoiced/sliding TH in English can be serious obstacles.