English Phonetics               

Vowels (Monophthongs)

IPA Phonetic Symbol	Examples
i ː	tree, sea, receive, women, believe, we, people
ɪ	bit, symbol, recall, business
æ	cat, apple, compact
ɑː	car, far, garage, heart
ɔː	sort, ball, ought, awful, board, floor, audacity, saw
ʊ	put, foot, could, butcher, woman
u ː	fool, rule, shoes, true, crew, move, through
ʌ	up, other, but, couple, blood, love
ɜ ː	her, first, turn, search, word
ə	until, about, alias
e	bed, effort, head, said, friend
ɒ	rock, impossible, body, cough, knowledge

Diphthongs

IPA Phonetic Symbol	Examples
eɪ	tray, eight, make, sail, say, great, ace
aɪ	sky, I, bye, buy, by, guide, flight, rye, die, choir ['kwair]
ɔɪ	joy, coin, oyster
ɪə (-r amer.)	fear, beer, here
eə (-r amer.)	hair, care, there, hare
ʊə (-r amer.)	tour, poor
aʊ	trousers, cow, hour, our
əʊ	joke, coat, own, go, though, sew, toe

Consonants

IPA Phonetic Symbol	Examples
p	parking, gallop, open
b	board, tab, abandon
t	trunk, request, receipt
d	add, ad, diligent
k	kodak, cord, accomplish, school, ache, conqueror, exchange (x = k+s)
g	grace, agree auxiliary (x = g+z)
tʃ	chance, achieve, catch, mutual
dʒ	jungle, judge, logic, procedure
f	fool, atmosphere, enough
v	vocal, give
θ	thanks, ethic
ð	there, other
s	sunday, citizen, east, scissors, psychology
z	zebra, cosmonaut, scissors, resign, xenon
ʃ	shine, sure, action, special, issue, conscience, anxious (x = k + ʃ)
ʒ	visual, casual, usual, garage,
h	head, uphill
m	mother, lamb
n	note, intrusion, knowledge, pneumatic
ŋ	sing, sink
l	laughter, illegal
r	random, orange; (amer.) order
j	yet, yesterday, you, utility; (u = j + u)
w	what, windows, quest, one (o = w + ʌ)