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Spanish is similar. Things are pronounced the way they are written. Made learning it way easier than my friends who went the other direction learning english.
Yeah im so happy i grew up in ireland and hungary so i know english to a native level. Hungarian is just a cool conversation starter. I had one year of spanish and the whole phonetic system is really easy, my only problem was the 1 million different conjugations you had to learn. From what i heard english is still worse because you just kinda imply tenses and most people dont have the feel for it.
There's always a trade-off that makes it difficult it seems. I struggle mightily with Spanish conjugation and gender without having to think about it. In English those two are much less of a concern, but at the cost of having a much stricter word order requirement and our mishmash of word pronunciation from all the French loanwords.
English used to have that. The -eths and -ests that people tack onto random words in a terrible attempt to evoke Early Modern English are supposed to follow similar rules to Spanish verb endings because they're fundamentally the same thing.