Sacrilege,
Writing Hebrew can be hard, for you’ll have to know the rules of Dikduk. With English, it is easier to construct a correctly written sentence without having taken a course than with Hebrew. However, smile66 is talking about reading.
Having said that, as far as I understand, the reason English is this way is because all Latin languages use the same letters, more or less. Therefore, when a foreign word made it in, we incorparated its spelling, too. That is why we have words spelled with French rules or German. That being the case, a language such as russian is, I think, also a what-you-see-is-what-you-get language.