For native English speakers, they can speak out most of the words they saw.
Without the help of international phonetic symbol system
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I've searched on-line and find some of the rules which helps spell-pronounce a word.
But they are not complete.
Where can I find a complete guide-book or reference for such spell-pronunciation
rules?
Best Answer
You will never find a “complete” guide-book because no such thing is possible in English:
Eventually you come to develop a feel for these things, but there will always be many that you get wrong no matter what putative rules to attempt to apply. See the poem included with the linked posting above.
Native speakers have their own ears to guide them: having heard the words spoken long before seeing them written, they usually know what a word sounds like already before they actually see it. If you spend more time listening to English, this will become easier than if you only read it.
In isn’t quite as difficult as learning a different pronunciation for each sinogram one encounters, but it is probably harder than in any other language that uses the Latin alphabet. You really do need to look things up in a quality dictionary, for there are otherwise too many surprises that will confound any possible attempt at applying a finite set of rules to them.