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by Toutouxc 954 days ago
Czech pronunciation is extremely regular and straightforward (sounds close to Latin or even Italian) with no weird "which vowel was that" or "half the word is silent" features and just a few exceptions. Usually if you write a letter, you pronounce the sound, and if you hear a sound, you write the letter.

A great example is that — for most words from any language that uses a subset of the Czech alphabet — a Czech speaker can just pronounce the word instead of spelling it and another Czech speaker will be able to write it down.

e.g. "messerschmitt", "nešamas", "cadeira", "philosophy", "tastaturi", "nicchia", "kaupunki", "abordagem", "povjerilac", "primauté" are all foreign words with very unambiguous pronunciation in Czech.