I'd also imagine that Portuguese pronunciation isn't quite that simple. Every language has dialects.
Yes, there are many Brazilian dialects, but that doesn't discount what I am trying to say, but apparently lack the vocabulary to say.
My point is that there is almost zero irregularity in how Portugese words are pronounced/spelled. Of course, a word will be pronounced differently by people of different dialects, but anybody who sees the word spelled out knows how to pronounce it.
Maybe I should say that it's the
spelling that's extremely regular, not the pronunciation.
But still, you can tell from the spelling of a word exactly how the accent should go. In English, you just have to
know how it's pronounced and accented.