Granted, it's easy to mispronounce an English word from the spelling alone (try to read aloud the poem "The Chaos" [links below], infamous among advanced English learners).

However, the sound/spelling correspondence is good enough, as I said, and certainly better than in Chinese. Thus, I stand by my position that premature concentration on reading/writing is a bigger problem for Chinese learner than for English learners.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ruize-rijmen/De_Chaos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clamen/misc/humour/TheChaos.html