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I think people from places that use idiographic languages that have to be transliterated probably actually have an easier time with English orthography than people whose language uses a Roman script and is pronounced phonetically. People who are used to puzzling through the layer of abstraction/obfuscation that sometimes ambiguous transliterations will have can see that English orthography is almost always substantially different than its pronunciation.
TL;DR: it's easier for a Chinese person to learn to read English aloud than a person from Romania, but the European would have studied it in school either somewhat or a lot
As a Hungarian I can confirm. We mostly read words letter-by-letter. No weird shit like "rebel" and "rebel" sounding different because one is a noun, other is a verb 🤡
Or "queue", are you drunk, English? And the native speakers' favourite mixups, "there" and "their", "it's" and "its".
You can blame the French for "queue", it was like that when we got it.