I learned to read in one month like any other Finnish child ever. But it took a month longer to understand what I was reading. Like my small brain was using all its capacity in pronunciation and I forgot what I just said.
English is like Chinese, you have to learn all pictorials and their meanings. Learning the pronunciation is different process. That is why English takes years and years to learn.
It would be easy to organize meeting of all Anglos and accept this as an alternate spelling. Polish have some weird sibilants, so that it could be the starting point.
You must be surelly joking there. :)
I find IPA fairly inaccessible for the casual user. There's a reason other systems exist.
Also, I wonder what's the share of the pronounciations "t", "th" and "θ" in the word "theremin".
(You can download a list of word forms encountered in some selected written texts here: https://kaino.kotus.fi/sanat/taajuuslista/parole.php)
triathlon, smoothie, maybe also apartheid
Also the dictionary finds huithapeli, häthätää, rustholli, but I don't think these have 'th' as a phoneme.
https://www.kielitoimistonsanakirja.fi/#/*th*?searchMode=onl...
What do you mean by having 'th' as a phoneme? If you mean the sound "θ", I don't think any of the words are pronounced with one in Finnish, typically. Rather, they have a "t" sound followed by a "h", or just a "t".