It’s not stupid, it’s a limitation you can overcome with practice but only if you actually care enough, not like you absolutely must

I never even thought to look at Wikipedia, do you know which Wikipedia entry specifically? I’m curious

Meanwhile, Russian is 99% phonetic if you take the total of 5 hours to learn the Cyrillic alphabet (which by the way Duolingo was actually incredible at, just don’t use duo for actually learning the language)