Quote Originally Posted by TATY
You take people to litterally.
When I say "they don't pronounce half the letters", I don't actually mean half.

But there are lots of unpronounced letters (e.g. at the end of words).

Basically, I was saying, French isn't a phonetic language, so even though a French word may look like a Spanish word, a Spanish person may find it difficult to understand.
I agree, some of them are unpronounced (mute is the right term) but needed especially when comes the writing or reading part otherwise you wouldn't be able to understand the words.
Here's an example, "col" and "colle" are pronounced the same way but have two different meanings.

And I agree also, French isn't a phonetic language but once you know the rules of pronounciation and I would say 'you read what you see', which is not the case in English for example.