The person I was responding to said that German can be read without knowing the meaning, unlike Spanish. That's not correct. Depends on accent. Some regions do

The person I was responding to said that German can be read without knowing the meaning, unlike Spanish. That's not correct. Depends on accent. Some regions do diferenciate. Maybe because, as I wrote in a previous comment, they speak another language that does have different sounds. But again: it's irrelevant for a foreigner learning to read standard Spanish. When you learn English they won't teach you cockney, they teach you some standard pronuntiation.