英语的48个音标分为辅音和元音两类，其中元音又分为单元音和双元音。单元音包括[i:][i][?:][?][u:][u][?:][?][ɑ:][?][e][?]，而双元音则包括[eI][aI][?I][?u][au][I?][ε?][u?]。每个音标都有其独特的发音方法，例如/i:/的发音是“衣 发长点”，/I/的发音是“衣 急促地发声”，/e/的发音是“哎 发这个音的时候不要把‘哎’的ī给读出来，嘴唇放松自然地读”等等1。 具体的发音方法可以参考国际音标的发音规则，例如[i:]的发音是“嘴唇微微张开，舌尖抵下齿，嘴角向两边张开，露出微笑的表情，与字母E的发音相同”等等。
[i:]字母组合:ee ea e ie ei
three tree green sheep meet beef see seek
eat tea meat leave lead teacher team mean speak clean please
he she me
piece receive ceiling
[i] 字母：i y e
it big six sixty city sit picture is list mix fix fit pig build miss
myth many twenty happy dictionary
defect decide delicious
[?:][ε:] 字母组合：ir ur ear er or
shirt thirty thirteen third bird
turn burn murder nurse turtle Thursday burger
learn earn earth heard
term her nerd serve
work worm work world
[?] [ε] 字母组合 er or ou ar o a e u
teacher leader remember player speaker farmer powder
doctor actor mayor author tractor
delicious gracious
familiar collar dollar
together tomorrow today shallop lesson Washington control polite
around account ago elephant manta banana Canada Japan china
possible china again breakfast quiet
[?:]字母组合 al or au our ar
small wall talk tall hall ball call walk
short more lord horse for forty sport door floor store
author caught autumn
four mourn court bought
warm quarrel quarter
bought thought wall ball talk
[?] 发音字母 o a [?]是[?:]的短音（就是“奥”）
hot lost lot fox box mop hop loss collar not
want wash watch
not hot shop hotter shopkeeper
[u:] 字母组合 oo o u
food moon room gloom broom doom goose tooth
shoe do two
true truth blue full prude
school through boot food room
[u]字母组合 oo ou u o
look good foot book wood
should could
put full bull pull push
woman wolf
bedroom classroom good look do
[a:] 字母组合 ar a
car farm card arm garden
fast class last glass plant aunt calm
are half class car far
[?] 发音字母 u o ou oo
up supper lunch fun gun hunt cup bus
come mother dose brother love above
trouble rough flourish
blood flood
cut son love come sun
[?] a
apple bag map man has hand and ant happy hat mad bad black back glad flag shall
[e] 字母组合 ea e a
head bread pleasure
elephant electric remember sell shell lesson better bed desk hotel yes
many any
pen desk head bread guess
[ai]发音字母 i y
bike fine find die nine light night high
my try fly eye
night right kind child by
[ei] 发音字母 a ay ea ai ey
name cake late gate plane April
play say may way
great break
rain paint plain
they grey
cake take same play way
[?i]字母组合oy oi
boy toy joy
oil soil voice choice
boy noisy noisier noise noisest
[i?] [iε] 字母组合 eer ear
beer deer
ear near
here fierce idea
ear here beer museum dear
[e?] [ε?] 字母组合ear air ere
pear bear
chair air fair
there where
care
care air chair airport careful
[u?] poor
[?u] [εu] 发音字母 o ow oa
home cold go no phone host ghost
know low below grow blow show flow
boat coat goal
no home hello slow show
[au]字母组合 ou ow
house out flour ground account count sound loud around mouse
flower down now cow how town
loudly house now down how
[p]shop top hope stop post
[b] bag black bed beside
[t]talk tought top tough stopped
[d] do did dog read used
[k] call card uncle stomach cold
[g] dog give gate get gold
[f]frog fox four food floor
[v]five river voice move receive
[s]nice city twice guess answer
[z]bags this apples rivers zoo
[t]it wanted watched stopped teach
[d]need answered read used do
[?]she machine moustache shop shopper
[?] measure pleasure
[ts]eats students sits minutes shirts
[dz] friends stands hands heads records
[tr] tree try trace(痕迹) tracer(追踪者） train
[dr] drive drink July dream drag drama
[t?]China change child children watch
[d?] change
[m]move mother moment mountain milk
[n]answer not line student want
[?]think uncle English wrong long
[h]hat help hard hope hot
[r]rice room right river reduce
[l] low lot less lose loss
[w]what which when why where
[j] yes use usage usually you
辅音（28个）
发清辅音时发音时声带不振动。
发浊辅音时发音时几乎不送气，声带振动。
双唇塞音/p/：pit- /b/：bit
齿龈塞音/t/：tin- /d/：din
软腭塞音/k/：cut- /ɡ/：gut
齿龈塞擦音/ts/：its- /dz/：goods
塞擦音 /tr/ tree- /dr/ drink
齿龈塞擦音/t?/：cheap- /d?/：jeep
唇齿擦音/f/：fat- /v/：vat
齿间擦音/θ/：thin- /e/：then
齿龈擦音/s/：son- /z/：zip
齿龈后擦音/?/：sugar- /?/：seizure
软腭无擦通音/?/：whine（也写成/hw/，仅用于美语）-/w/：we
鼻音
浊辅音。 发音时软腭下垂,使气流从鼻腔逸出而产生的一种语音。
双唇鼻音/m/：map
齿龈鼻音/n/：nap
软颚鼻音/?/：hang
似拼音
浊辅音。它们四个的发音非常相似。
声门擦音/h/：ham
齿龈无擦通音/r/：run
齿龈边音/l/：left
软腭化齿龈边音/?/：cancel
语音学上指擦音中气流较弱，摩擦较小，介于元音跟辅音之间的音。
软腭无擦通音/?/：whine（也写成/hw/，仅用于美语）-/w/：we
硬腭无擦通音/j/：yes（浊辅音）
成节辅音
成节辅音共有/?/、/n/、/m/三个。它们也可以与前面的辅音拼在一起，形成音节。可在成节辅音下方加上一点（.），写成/l?/、/n?/、/m?/。例如：
/l?/：bottle
/n?/：button
/m?/：rhythm
以下是48个音标对应的单词示例：
1. /i/ - eat
2. /?/ - sit
3. /e/ - bed
4. /?/ - cat
5. /ɑ/ - father
6. /?/ - dog
7. /?/ - book
8. /u/ - moon
9. /?/ - cup
10. /?/ - about
11. /e?/ - day
12. /a?/ - eye
13. /??/ - boy
14. /a?/ - house
15. /p/ - pen
16. /b/ - boy
17. /t/ - tea
18. /d/ - day
19. /k/ - cat
20. /g/ - girl
21. /f/ - fish
22. /v/ - van
23. /θ/ - think
24. /e/ - this
25. /s/ - sit
26. /z/ - zoo
27. /?/ - ship
28. /?/ - pleasure
29. /h/ - happy
30. /m/ - man
31. /n/ - night
32. /?/ - sing
33. /l/ - love
34. /r/ - red
35. /j/ - yellow
36. /w/ - window
37. /i?/ - bee
38. /a?/ - eye
39. /??/ - boy
40. /u?/ - blue
41. /e?/ - day
42. /a?/ - house
43. /??/ - ear
44. /e?/ - air
45. /??/ - tour
46. /ɑ?/ - car
47. /??/ - bird
48. /??/ - boat
这些单词只是示例，不是所有的单词都只有一个音标。在英语中，有些单词的发音可能会有多个音标，需要根据上下文和发音规则来确定正确的发音。
[i:] sea, he, see, piece, meat2) [i] sit, build, miss, myth, swim 3) [e] bed, desk, head, red, let 4) [?] bad, land, bank, stamp, lamp5) [a:] car, fast, class, calm, glass