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That sounds pretty bad actually. You're saying most _native_ speakers can't predict the pronunciation of 10-15% of common words?
I wasn't great in Spanish at school, but the teacher was mostly correct that "you write it like it sounds". Much more so than English at least.
(for context: I'm native Dutch/French, but speak mostly English, and know a bit of Spanish and Portuguese)
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That sounds pretty bad actually. You're saying most _native_ speakers can't predict the pronunciation of 10-15% of common words?
I wasn't great in Spanish at school, but the teacher was mostly correct that "you write it like it sounds". Much more so than English at least.
(for context: I'm native Dutch/French, but speak mostly English, and know a bit of Spanish and Portuguese)