>>2269839>>bitch please, Chinese have that problem for every characters. You have to learn the meaning behind every character to know the word, otherwise they are just pictogram.
In English it goes the same with your words.
Yes, you can figure out a word that you are not familiar with by its word root, like prefix or sufix,
but if you do not know the meaning of the root, then it doesn't make any sense to you.
Also, you may want to say that as a spelling language, it would be more easily for you
to figure out the pronunciations of certain words that you haven't learned yet.
In that regard, I already gave the example of Calliope Mori mispronouncing the meme.
In English, sometimes it's hard to guess the pronunciation of an unlearned word.
Even if you learned the system of phonics, the exceptions are always out there.
For example, in phonics they would tell you that when you see an English word with "oo" in its constitution. That would be pronounced as /u/ as in food /fuːd/ or fool/fuːl/. Then what about the exceptions? How would you pronounce blood, flood, and door?
What about the root-"au"? They tell you you should always pronounce "au" as /ɔ/ as it goes in autumn /ɔːtəm/, automobile/ˈɔtəməˌbil/, sausage/ˈsɔsɪdʒ/. Then what about aunt?
What about the root-"ow" does it always pronounce as /aʊ/ as it goes in cow/kaʊ]/, owl/aʊl/, and vowel/ˋvaʊəl/? What about "low" and "bowel"?
You pronounce "ue" as /u/ when it's in blue/blu/, clue/klu/ and sue/su/, then how would you pronounce "queue"?