Do you think words should be spelled exactly as they are pronounced?

Spanish is very close to being consistent with its spellings and pronunciations. I have not come across any other European languages which is so simple to master from the point of view of spelling and pronunciation.

No!?

The letters are always the same in every language (more or less) and had a particularly sound, and every language gives a sound to the letters.

So.. thats the beautiful thing about languages 😻

In my opinion yeah. I think it's kinda stupid that words like "weapons" are spelled as if they should be pronounced as "wee-pahns". Can't really complain though I guess.

Actually I'm not sure if that's possible because few words are pronounced exactly the same in all dialects. English is a good example of that. At the same time, languages like French may be a lot easier to understand in its written form because it's usually more conservative (closer to Latin and to other Latin-based languages).

no it's fine the way they are

That would be nice but how many letters would you need in English.? Esperanto is spelled as you speak it.

True Spanish spelling is easy but here again fast spoken Spanish is not like it is written.

Spanish drops many letters and even syllables in fast speech.Several letters have more than one sound.

I think German and Dutch are closer in their spelling according to their spelling rules and unlike in Spanish they do not have breath groups which makes for fast speech and difficulty in understanding.

You would love Spanish, then. It is pronounced exactly as it is spelled. That's why Spanish-speaking children learn to read faster than their English-speaking counterparts.

chat-questions are not allowed here.

Spelling ENGLISH phonetically would turn many homophones into homonyms, and that would cause a lot of confusion.

There are very phonetic languages though: Italian, Hungarian, Korean, Esperanto..

No. English has roots going back for 2000 years or so and the spelling of words reflects the history of the language. There are plenty of languages where the spelling dictates the pronunciation, French, Italian and Spanish for a start (French has silent letters but they are consistent, the "s" at the end of "Paris" for instance) but English is not one of them. There are dialects of English that still use the old pronunciations. If you changed the spellings, those dialects would be incomprehensible.

No.