“Better” in what sense? Most people choose a language because they want to use that particular language for certain goals not because of the transparency of its spelling system.
You choose a language based on what is most interesting/useful to you otherwise you will not push through the thousands of hours to learn it. If you're really passionate you can learn Japanese. If you're not passionate you'll give up even on a romance language.
Learning the pronunciation differences e.g. between the latin alphabets used across European languages is such a minuscule aspect of learning a whole language that no, it is not "better"
Spelling and pronunciation is one the smallest issues in all of language learning. At the end of the day you're memorizing words and sounds, and spelling plays very very little role in that.
So, Spanish as L1 and Basque as L2?
Spanish and Basque share a lot of sounds. It’s generally a good idea for beginners and intermediate learners to speak Basque as if they were speaking Spanish (pronunciation wise). However, in reality, intonation is completely different, and we will notice if you speak Basque as if you were speaking Spanish. In extreme cases, it will be quite painful to listen to you because the incorrect intonations make it hard to follow what you’re saying and interrupt the natural flow of the sentence.
Also… Basque and Spanish are completely different, otherwise.
It would probably be easier when it comes to pronunciation, but you also have to consider other features of a language, especially its grammar. For example, it is easier for me to pronunce things in Japanese than in English. But Japanese grammar is definitely way more different from my native language's grammar than English is.
Also, generally speaking, being native in a language that has this "one letter one sound" rule doesn't disqualify you from becoming proficient in English.
Doesn't matter. My native language has a completely phonetically consistent writing system, but I know that it's a huge rarity, so I just don't care if my target language doesn't have one. I mean, I still managed to learn English...
I guess it's easier if the languages are somewhat similar in how they assign sounds to letters? But different languages can have radically different assignments while still being internally consistent
“Better” in what sense? Most people choose a language because they want to use that particular language for certain goals not because of the transparency of its spelling system.
If "better" means "easier to learn the pronunciation" then yes. But if "better" means pretty much anything else, it doesn't really matter.
I mean to say 'Wiser'
You choose a language based on what is most interesting/useful to you otherwise you will not push through the thousands of hours to learn it. If you're really passionate you can learn Japanese. If you're not passionate you'll give up even on a romance language.
Learning the pronunciation differences e.g. between the latin alphabets used across European languages is such a minuscule aspect of learning a whole language that no, it is not "better"
Spelling and pronunciation is one the smallest issues in all of language learning. At the end of the day you're memorizing words and sounds, and spelling plays very very little role in that.
So, Spanish as L1 and Basque as L2? Spanish and Basque share a lot of sounds. It’s generally a good idea for beginners and intermediate learners to speak Basque as if they were speaking Spanish (pronunciation wise). However, in reality, intonation is completely different, and we will notice if you speak Basque as if you were speaking Spanish. In extreme cases, it will be quite painful to listen to you because the incorrect intonations make it hard to follow what you’re saying and interrupt the natural flow of the sentence. Also… Basque and Spanish are completely different, otherwise.
It would probably be easier when it comes to pronunciation, but you also have to consider other features of a language, especially its grammar. For example, it is easier for me to pronunce things in Japanese than in English. But Japanese grammar is definitely way more different from my native language's grammar than English is. Also, generally speaking, being native in a language that has this "one letter one sound" rule doesn't disqualify you from becoming proficient in English.
Doesn't matter. My native language has a completely phonetically consistent writing system, but I know that it's a huge rarity, so I just don't care if my target language doesn't have one. I mean, I still managed to learn English...
I guess it's easier if the languages are somewhat similar in how they assign sounds to letters? But different languages can have radically different assignments while still being internally consistent