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I think Spanish is a much better example for write how you speak and still being correct, than German.

Xenoamorphous 2y ago
Hmmm not so literate people (or just children) make a lot of mistakes writing Spanish because a bunch of letters are pronounced the same. And then the “h” when not preceded by a “c” is silent, which causes issues. What is true however is that of you learn the pronunciation rules you should be able to read a text correctly even if you have no clue what you’re saying. That’s not true of English for example.
- Maken 2y ago
  There are a couple of rules that cause confusion: - b, v and sound like /b/, because v lost its original pronunciation and w was lent from other languages. - h lost its sound and became silent (used to be a soft /f/). - g can sometimes sound like /j/ (there was some pressure to remove these uses). - x can be an /s/ at the start of a word (due to Greek ancestry). Those are considered mistakes, but they do not change the pronunciation of the words. For the concrete rules: https://www.rae.es/ortograf%C3%ADa/valores-fonol%C3%B3gicos-de-los-grafemas-y-d%C3%ADgrafos-del-espa%C3%B1ol https://www.rae.es/ortograf%C3%ADa/valores-fonol%C3%B3gicos-.... You can see the exceptions to "one letter, one sound" are very few.
  - School-Cotton 2y ago
    Also, in Latin America (but not most of Spain) z and s are pronounced the same.
- lomase 2y ago
  H, V/B, LL/Y are problematic in Spanish and you have to memorize how each word is wrote down.
adastra22 2y ago
Is it? There is a lot of historical spelling in Spanish, though not as much as English. German, on with the other hand, has its spelling routinely updated every few years.
- Maken 2y ago
  The historical spelling is quite limited, and mostly for retro-compatibility. Spanish tries to be understandable across a large number of countries and rules must accommodate old Spanish dating from the XV century.
- int_19h 2y ago
  Spanish is indeed somewhat more phonemic in spelling, even though it's not as good as Finnish, Turkish, or Serbo-Croatian. That said, Spanish and German are both so much better than English that the difference between them can be disregarded in this context. The irony is that almost any major European language (with the notable exception of French) has better spelling than English; and even French, although it's horribly overcomplicated, is more consistent when it comes to reading.

Hmmm not so literate people (or just children) make a lot of mistakes writing Spanish because a bunch of letters are pronounced the same. And then the “h” when not preceded by a “c” is silent, which causes issues. What is true however is that of you learn the pronunciation rules you should be able to read a text correctly even if you have no clue what you’re saying. That’s not true of English for example.

Maken 2y ago
There are a couple of rules that cause confusion: - b, v and sound like /b/, because v lost its original pronunciation and w was lent from other languages. - h lost its sound and became silent (used to be a soft /f/). - g can sometimes sound like /j/ (there was some pressure to remove these uses). - x can be an /s/ at the start of a word (due to Greek ancestry). Those are considered mistakes, but they do not change the pronunciation of the words. For the concrete rules: https://www.rae.es/ortograf%C3%ADa/valores-fonol%C3%B3gicos-de-los-grafemas-y-d%C3%ADgrafos-del-espa%C3%B1ol https://www.rae.es/ortograf%C3%ADa/valores-fonol%C3%B3gicos-.... You can see the exceptions to "one letter, one sound" are very few.
- School-Cotton 2y ago
  Also, in Latin America (but not most of Spain) z and s are pronounced the same.
lomase 2y ago
H, V/B, LL/Y are problematic in Spanish and you have to memorize how each word is wrote down.

adastra22 2y ago

Is it? There is a lot of historical spelling in Spanish, though not as much as English. German, on with the other hand, has its spelling routinely updated every few years.

Maken 2y ago
The historical spelling is quite limited, and mostly for retro-compatibility. Spanish tries to be understandable across a large number of countries and rules must accommodate old Spanish dating from the XV century.
int_19h 2y ago
Spanish is indeed somewhat more phonemic in spelling, even though it's not as good as Finnish, Turkish, or Serbo-Croatian. That said, Spanish and German are both so much better than English that the difference between them can be disregarded in this context. The irony is that almost any major European language (with the notable exception of French) has better spelling than English; and even French, although it's horribly overcomplicated, is more consistent when it comes to reading.