音标听起来很像拼音，所以我们也侥幸地想用汉字去发音音标，然而总觉得哪里有偏颇。张沛老师对元音音标做了以下总结，利用谐音帮助大家掌握发音音标的要诀。
[i:] 谐音为：易（yi）；像数字1，记忆真容易。【衣 发长点】
e: me be she he we evening
ee: sweet bee sweep sheep see sleep three green
ea: meat leaf sea pea teach eat clean
[i] 谐音为：【衣 急促地发声】
i: pig fish in fifteen six ship thin
e: begin behind jacket basketball
y: happy heavy busy lorry carry sunny lovely study thirsty twenty thirty windy rainy
ey: monkey money
ay:Sunday Saturday Friday
[ә:] 谐音为：饿（e）；一只鹅饿得晕倒了。【额 发长音】
er: her serve term
ir:bird girl skirt first dirty skirt shirt
ur:nurse Thursday turtle purple curtain
ear:early learn
or: word work world
[ә] 谐音为：【额 发短音】
ure: picture
er:teacher brother dinner father sister
ar: sugar
or:doctor
a:panda about above camera sofa China
[ɔ:] 谐音为：噢（0）；噢，这个音标就像个o。【哦 声音拖长】
a: water
aw:draw strawberry
al:ball wall
or:horse corn fork or short
oor:floor door
[ɔ] 谐音为：【哦 急促】
o: fox coffee dog shop dog doctor long
a: watch
[u:] 谐音为：【乌 声音拖长】
谐音为：雾（wu）；杯子上有很多雾。
o: do who whose
oo: food moon too
ui: fruit juice
u: ruler rude
[u] 谐音为：【乌 急促】
o:woman wolf
oo:look good book foot wood
u:bull bullet
[a:] 谐音为：啊（a）；音标的读音跟拼音一样。【啊 嘴巴长到最大】
a: grass glass class plant dance fast father last
ar: car star arm March garden dark scarf
au: laugh aunt
ear: heart
[Λ] 谐音为：【阿 嘴巴微微地张开发出这个音就可以了】
o: son come colour love money
u: sun nut jump gum bus brush supper us
ou: touch cousin country
[æ] 谐音为：【哎 发这个音的时候不要把“哎”的ī给读出来，嘴唇扁平地发】
a: dad cap cat bad apple bag flag hand rabbit ant black fat has stand rat map
[e] 谐音为：【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】
e: egg bell desk leg pet ten pen
ea: bread head breakfast
[ei] 谐音为：【有点像答应人的“诶”的声音】
a: cake make name game snake gate lazy
ai: rain train wait
ay:day May play taday way
[ai] 谐音为：爱（ai）；音标的读音跟拼音一样。【唉】
i: kite bike nice tiger write knife
y: by cry fly my sky try why
ie:tie pie
uy:buy
[ɔi] 这个音标找不到拼音的谐音，可以按照字母o、i的发音连读来进行谐音记忆。【哦－喂 连着读】
oi: oil boil coin
oy: boy toy
[au] 谐音为：傲（ao）；一个杯子很骄傲，不让人拿它喝水。
ou: house mouse mouth trousers
ow: flower cow how now down
[әu] 谐音为：鸥（ou）；一只鹅在杯子里找海鸥。【呕】
o: nose rose poen over
oa: boat coat soap goat
ow:show window snow bowl
[iә] 谐音和外形都像：12【衣－饿 连着读】
ear: ear hear tear
eer: deer beer
[ɛə]谐音为：挨饿；外形像3只鹅；三只鹅都在挨饿。【哎－饿 连着读】
air: hair chair pair
ear:pear bear wear
[uә] 谐音为：屋鹅；一屋子的鹅都装在杯子里。【乌－饿 连着读】
oor: poor
our: tour
ure: sure pure