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Most people don’t know this but a lot of Japanese words have pitch accents that you need a dictionary to learn if you don’t learn the word audibly and the accents are not in the English/Japanese dictionaries, only in specialized Japanese/Japanese dictionaries. When Chinese speakers learn Japanese they do well at learning it because it’s similar to Chinese pitch.

> I would way rather standardize the sounds

This has been tried.

https://luminusdadon.wordpress.com/2006/05/04/how-english-be...

Zis mad me smil!

Esperanto doesn't have accents that emphasise stress the same way other langauges do. The little markers over the characters indicate that it's a completely different letter with a completely different vowel/consonant sound (and they have their own entries in the alphabet).

For example, "Co" would be pronounced like "Tso", whereas "Ĉo" would be pronounced like "Cho".

Pronunciation is completely standardised, with stress (almost?) always placed on the penultimate syllable.

If you consider each letter+accent combination as distinct, it is the same as having standardized pronunciation for each symbol?