Phonetic Alphabet?

[gothwalk]

What's the best way to go about learning the phonetic alphabet? I've just realised, trying to explain in text to a Canadian colleague, that trying to render a Northern Irish accent in the mundane alphabet is wholly impossible. The greeting that you'd write as "How's you?" gets mangled into "Hyee's yi-e?", and still doesn't convey either the sound or the fact that it sounds pleasant.

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[ex-agname.livejournal.com]

You can use this!
http://www.eduquery.com/archives/ipa.htm

If you can find the appropriate keystrokes for generating the symbols (or have a lot of patience copy and pasting), that is.