[alexander_busek]

The closest you can get to a simpler sounding/spelled language is Spanish or Latin.

Quite untrue. German spelling is virtually phonetic. Russian also comes very close.

Regards,

[Olog-hai]

German still has a ways to go with some of the vowel digraphs (ei and eu could perhaps be replaced with ï and ë respectively?) as well as find new uses for redundant c and v, not to mention trigraphs (sch) and tetragraphs (tsch). There’s also the “Sie” conundrum.