[jolmg]

> if someone teaches you a word or a name, you can simply hear how it's spelled.

Is it like Spanish where you can also know how a word is pronounced by how it's written?

[skrebbel]

Even better, because Spanish has a few letters that change pronunciation depending on context, eg the g in guerra vs Girona.

[bernawil]

doesn't depend on any "context" in that example. Both written and spoken follow strict rules.

[jolmg]

The context they mean is probably the adjacent "u", which is true and is involved in the strict rules you speak of.

There is ambiguity with "x", though. I don't know if there are strict rules surrounding it. I know of 3 different sounds for it:

* Like Spanish "j", English "h" as in México, Xavier, Oaxaca

* Like Spanish "ch", English "sh" as in Xoloitzcuintle, Xela

* Like English "x" as in excepción, exacto

[skrebbel]

Yeah that was badly worded. I meant context the way parsers/lexers use the term, not the common language speaker's definition of "the meaning of the surrounding words".

I meant adjacent letters.