Some languages are more based on syllables than English, like Portuguese for example. When I was first learning English, being a portuguese speaker, I thought

Some languages are more based on syllables than English, like Portuguese for example. When I was first learning English, being a portuguese speaker, I thought it would be easy to learn english, I just had to know the english syllables and translate words syllable by syllable. To my dismay, not only that doesn't work, english barely has a concept of syllables that makes any sense. So I wonder if languages that are have more phonetic writing like Korean for example, have better readers than other languages.