How to Learn Phonics in English

A basic linguistics class will introduce you to IPA and if you've got a good teacher, they'll give you some explanation that will help you to figure out. Wikipedia articles on the phonology for major languages like English even splits it down by dialect. We all speak sort of different dialects of English. If you speak multiple languages, look at those different languages and you can figure that that will figure help you figure out some sounds that don't occur in English.