Letters still have lots of meaning in French. I love French spelling and pronunciation. Not understanding something doesn't make it meaningless.
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Accurate.
It's really not, if anything French and English should be reversed. You can generally know how a french word is supposed to be pronounced when reading it (assuming you know how to read French, of course), in English it's a complete crapshoot
The French word for bird is oiseau, which contains every vowel and none of them are pronounced correctly.
Oi wah
S Z
Eau O
Sound correct to me.
Letters in words are never pronounced like they sound in the alphabet, they are pronounced in syllables like I am showing you here but you probably already know that and chose not to say it because its not against the French language.
French orthography is way more coherent than English. From the spelling you can pretty much tell how a french word is pronounced. Not the other way around, sure, but that's a damn sight better than English which manages neither.