English text and English spelling would refer to the same thing any way I can understand them, but it&#x27;s true that English spelling is more loosely coupled to pronunciation than Italian spelling is. That reflects the fact that English hasn&#x27;t had a spelling reform in a while; spelling always starts out perfect and fails to drift while the spoken language does drift. If Italian had no written form, and everyone there made all their written communications in classical Latin, you might have more trouble.<p>English spelling reform is difficult to do at this point because there&#x27;s no one place that can claim to be authoritative; it isn&#x27;t possible to spell words phonemically in a way that&#x27;s simultaneously valid for American and British English.<p>All that said, Japanese spelling is infinitely worse than English spelling.