1. A method comprising: receiving an input signal that includes linguistic content in a first language, wherein the linguistic content includes text or speech; based on an acoustic feature comparison between a plurality of first-language speech sounds and a plurality of second-language speech sounds, associating, by a computing device that includes one or more processors, the linguistic content in the first language with one or more phonemes from a second language; and determining, by the computing device, a phonemic representation of the linguistic content in the first language based on use of the one or more phonemes from the second language, wherein the phonemic representation is indicative of a pronunciation of the linguistic content in the first language according to speech sounds of the second language.