do you use phonetic transcription to teach english? I found chinese students really love to use the international phonetic transcription system to study english. Some people even don't know how to pronounce correctly without the phonetic transcription. Do you find it useful? have you used it before in your class? I always say to my students we never use it outside China, and we wouldn't study it that hard. It is better to use the english standard transcription and follow the pronunciation with "the english writing logic". However chinese people has a very strong idea and a strong habit of using phonics transcription so is hard to get ride of them in class. Students always feels like something is missing. In my experience, I wish I'd studied it when I was learning english. We as spanish speakers don't have clear the vowels pronunciation, for us "hot, hat, heart, and cup" are pronounced as "A" like in "hasta la vista" so studying phonetic transcription would make it easier to understand the whole variety of english vowels.