[TomAnthony]

Alas, that isn't as true as German's tell me it is, I find.

"Weg" <- how do you pronounce this?

"Geh weg" (go away) "Der Weg ist da drüben!" (the path is over there)

[seritools]

Weg != weg, so it's pretty clear.

You missed "Gehweg" (sidewalk) though. :^)

[advanced-DnD]

Once you learnt the phonetics for the alphabet, you'll find German is pretty consistence.

I don't know what you're trying convey in your examples though, because all the example have consistent pronunciation. Inconsistence pronunciation often because it is borrowed words from French (das Experiment (Ex-pe-ri-mo'n?)) or English (das Schedule, informal vocab.)

[usr1106]

There are some exceptions, sure.

But German pronunciation is 80% simple and regular at least whereas English is more like 80% complicated and irregular.

[pacaro]

Compound words do have the potential to throw this for a loop. The pronunciation is regular if you can decompose the word, but if you miss where the word boundaries are all bets are off. For example "linkshändig"

[usr1106]

That could be true for some words, but not in your example. "sh" does not exist in any basic German word, so the boundary must be there.