@Ruthi: Yes it is because it helps a lot to understand what is the best pronunciation, expecially in English where there is not always correspondences between written words and pronunciations. In bilingual dictionaries you can find it and so it's useful because is an International alphabet. We use phonetic symbols at university(in exams there will be a text with phonetic symbols and we have to catch all words).

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Why do you want to use phonetic transcription? Is that a good way to learn pronunciation?