Hi Richard,

My native language is Arabic and it is totally phonetic language as we pronounce the very written letters.

Concerning English I like it the way it is, and feel its writing is unique. Please, don’t change it. I like the letters that aren’t pronounced but are being written.

Thanks for the thought-provoking topic😊

P.S.

Azari is the same Azerbaijani.

My native language is Hungarian, which is a phonetic language,except for the cases when the assimilation of sounds doesn't show in writing. It usually happens with some suffixes, and one would sound really unnatural if they'd try to pronounce words strictly as they're written, but it's just a minor thing. It would actually take more effort than to let the assimilation naturally occur, I think.

Honestly I don't want to change the spelling of English since it shows how some words are related and it actually makes the learning process easier. It might be not needed if English used more compound words, but that's not the case at the moment.

However, if I <em>had </em>to spell them phonetically, it'd probably look like this:

Colonel kurnel

Queue kyoo

Language langwidge

Yoghurt/Yogurt yawgurt

Choir quire

One wun

Read redd (two d's to show it's the past form of read xd)

Ballet bahley

Produce prawdoose

Hello Richard

Interesting topic

My native language is phonetic. That's why it looks very easy. The difficulty is only suffixes.

Given I eat salads frequently, I often think about the people that produce produce.

Given that I am frequently doing it, I think about how I I often times read articles and books.

Only occasionally do I consider the books I have read over the years.

Monopoly has created a generation of people would may not truly know what the name of a certain railroad is.

I vacated a snowy area to return to return to a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

Prior to that I decided to desert the desert I was living in.

And you haven't even mentioned the whole ghoti issue.

You've left out so many wonderful words to rewrite. Or am I certain that I write the right way?

And what of the minute amount of time known as a minute?

There is also an interesting article: 

Phonemic orthography

Here are some interesting quotes from it:

1."phonemic orthography is native to Esperanto"

2."English orthography is highly non-phonemic".

3."Languages with highly phonemic orthographies often lack or rarely use a word corresponding to the English verb "to spell" because the act of spelling out words is rarely needed"

4."Languages with a high grapheme-to-phoneme and phoneme-to-grapheme correspondence (excluding exceptions due to loan words and assimilation) include:

Maltese, Finnish, Albanian, Georgian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian,

Turkish (apart from ğ and various palatal and vowel allophones)

Macedonian (if the apostrophe denoting schwa is counted, though slight inconsistencies may be found)

Eastern Armenian (apart from o, v)

Basque (apart from palatalized l, n)

Haitian Creole

Castilian Spanish (apart from h, x, b/v, and sometimes k, c, g, j, z)

Czech (apart from ě, ů, y, ý)

Polish (apart from ó, h, rz)

Romanian (apart from distinguishing semivowels from vowels)

Ukrainian (mainly phonemic with some other historical/morphological rules, as well as palatalization)

Belarusian (phonemic for vowels but morphophonemic for consonants except ў written phonetically)

Swahili (missing aspirated consonants, which do not occur in all varieties and anyway are sparsely used)

Mongolian (apart from letters representing multiple sounds depending on front or back vowels, the soft and hard sign, silent letters to indicate /ŋ/ from /n/ and voiced versus voiceless consonants)

Azerbaijani (apart from k)"

"Orthographies such as those of German, Hungarian ... , Portuguese, and modern Greek (written with the Greek alphabet), as well as Korean hangul, are sometimes considered to be of intermediate depth..."

As for me Portuguese is highly phonetic, I think more phonetic than Polish...

(I study both Portuguese and Polish).