The trick with French is not to think about it in terms of individual letters, but rather letter clusters, and then it becomes fairly regular. The individual le

The trick with French is not to think about it in terms of individual letters, but rather letter clusters, and then it becomes fairly regular. The individual letters can do wild things, but a given combination of letters generally has fairly clear rules about how it should be spoken. This is very different to English where, for example, "ough" can be pronounced in several different ways just by putting different letters in front of it. (oo, uff, ow, uh, oh, etc).