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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[piratejenny.livejournal.com]

This is why I couldn't do the learning Irish CD. I needed a class with real people to help out with that. Of course, it only works with one dialect. (And I'm taking a break until the fall semester anyway, due to work insanity and summer hours.)