how do you know ipa pronunciation hey slp how do you know the ipa pronunciation i would like to help by adding pronunciations as opposed to just adding the templates but i don't know how to find out the pronuncations like for 'ewa beach or how to transcribe them into ipa thanks iamunknown i learnt ipa during phonetics courses at university if you want to learn ipa then a course is probably the best plan but otherwise there are books as well as articles and exercises on the internet including wikipedia it is worth training yourself to really listen and feel words a bit as it is so easy to get misled by the spelling in english i hope this helps