I find it interesting that they highlight phonetics because this is a problem quite unique to the madness that is English. In many other languages, phonics rule

I find it interesting that they highlight phonetics because this is a problem quite unique to the madness that is English. In many other languages, phonics rules are quite coherent, thus, once you know the rules, you can read the language, even without understanding what it means. At least I can tell this about the ones I know myself: Italian, Spanish, Polish, Swedish. English, alas, is very inconsistent with its rules.