Methods for phonetic spelling

[symbolipoint]

I suspect that phonetic spelling is done using different systems. Briefly trying a search on internet, I am not finding the exact symbols I am looking for and some of what I want do not seem to be found in Windows Character Map. I feel a little lost. I can come-up with something that may work, but I am looking for what I thought I was taught when I was in first-grade of Elementary school. (Native English Speaker).

 

[fresh_42]

This looks sufficient for me and has links to particular languages:
https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/index.html

I learned these:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationales_Phonetisches_Alphabet
The English version appears to be a bit more detailed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

Here are pages that allow copy and paste:
https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/phoneticsymbolsforenglish.htm
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2014/ling115/phonetics.html

 

[fresh_42]

Here is the ultimate test:

ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ ɪz ə ˈdɪfɪkᵊlt ˈlæŋɡwɪʤ. ɪt kæn biː ˌʌndəˈstʊd θruː tʌf ˈθʌrə θɔːt, ðəʊ.

Created with https://tophonetics.com/

 

[mjc123]

Depending on your age, it might be the Initial Teaching Alphabet. I came across that in primary school; luckily I survived it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet

 

[symbolipoint]

Wow this whole subject is far bigger and deeper than I knew how to imagine back when I was so very young. What is presented in these few responses is far so overwhelming!

 

[symbolipoint]

Depending on your age, it might be the Initial Teaching Alphabet. I came across that in primary school; luckily I survived it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet

The article is great but still it's overwhelming to read.

Let me represent what I remember, according to my current skill and knowledge(?) using a simple example; the word, "coin". The piece of money:
I need to DESCRIBE this here.
k (just the letter)
o (with a long segment above it, and an accent mark)
e (with a long segment above it)
n (just the letter)

We could have done it like that and our dictionaries would have shown like that too (but on a single line but not separate rows for each sound). There was also a raised dot between neighboring syllables.
I do not know the identity of this system of phonetic spelling.

 

[berkeman]

I suspect that phonetic spelling is done using different systems. Briefly trying a search on internet, I am not finding the exact symbols I am looking for and some of what I want do not seem to be found in Windows Character Map. I feel a little lost. I can come-up with something that may work, but I am looking for what I thought I was taught when I was in first-grade of Elementary school. (Native English Speaker).

I was just looking something up on Wikipedia, and noticed that they include phonetic spelling in some of their articles. Maybe check out what standard they are using to see if it would work for you. I know it's not the old standard that we used many years ago, but probably adopting one of the new standards will work okay for you:

 

[sbrothy]

I sometimes use the method that if I know how a word is pronounced I look up the phonetic spelling on e.g. merriam and piece together what I want. Not very professional but it seems to work most of the time. But yeah: amateurish.