# \#learning-studios **URL:** https://metastudio.org/tag/learning-studios/665.md [Latest](https://metastudio.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://metastudio.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://metastudio.org/tags.md) --- ## [Towards a phonetic IPA alphabet for English](https://metastudio.org/t/towards-a-phonetic-ipa-alphabet-for-english/16822)
**Author:** [@GN](https://metastudio.org/u/GN)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2026, 2:28pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/towards-a-phonetic-ipa-alphabet-for-english/16822 "2026-05-18T14:28:18Z")
An eight-year-old girl I know writes Hindi in the Roman alphabet. She has no training in transliteration. She has no teacher correcting her spelling. What she has is an ear, and a set of letters she learned in school. Th…