I was gonna mention the silent k, h, e but then I remember french. They have like 50% silent letters at random. I remember how flabbergasted I was to see millefeuille written the first time.

I can hear a word in Spanish and immediately know how to spell it. I can read a word in Spanish and know how to pronounce it. We can only dream of doing that in English.

Instant downvote, you know why...

As a person who learned English as an adult, u can tell you that the word that gave me the most trouble early on was "weather". I mean these sounds are impossible!!

It's easier than Dutch at least

I think "Eunuch" might be a worse offender of this

Lol in Polish

Relevant "Raymond Luxury Yacht" Monty Python sketch https://youtu.be/tyQvjKqXA0Y

Mandarin

50 000 characters used to live here

I remember when I was a kid and we started learning foreign languages in school. My class got divided into two halves, ones that study English and other that study German. Few month later I was walking down the street with my classmate and he went like:

• Oh, so you're studying English, huh? What does DUHR mean?

• What?

• DUHRR

• Oh, you mean door? It's spelled do-o.

• Bro, there's an R in there and two O's. DUHR. Even I know that, and I'm not even the one studying English. If door was do-o, then would you spell TOH DOH as "to do"?

Little did the bro know... I hope he at least got German well enough, AFAIK there's little bullshit like that

What about thought, through, tough, though... wtf?! It took me many many years to finally understand this crazyness lol

We have a park here...

Champoeg state park.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champoeg,_Oregon

Sham-pooie.

Because in Old Dutch, the letter g is pronounced like a y when it's at the end of a word.

As a mainly spanish speaker the word that sent me is "brought" and being told is a monosyllabic word I swear I can clanly pass C2 tests and probably C3 tests and that shit still gets me even 10 years working with english speakers.
Also I laugh at any attempt of a pronunciation rule, english is a collage of borrowed words between Latin Anlgic later Fench and some made up ones. A specific word has a way to be pronounced and that's it same syllables in another word can be totally different. When I fail one I got a great trick, if they ask what pronunciation is that I say "Scotland, Ye cannae show I'm wrang"