A shout out to Sanskrit (for European learners at least) - its trick is to be complex on a number of orthogonal axes, with few obvious shortcuts for the learner

A shout out to Sanskrit (for European learners at least) - its trick is to be complex on a number of orthogonal axes, with few obvious shortcuts for the learner: - Writing system (devanagari) - conjunct consonants will keep tripping you up long after you've mastered the basics; - Vocabulary - the hope of familiarity due to a common Indo-European vocabulary quickly dissipates; - Noun morphology - approx twice as many forms per paradigm to learn compared to classical Greek, and many more paradigms; - Sandhi - a difficulty so disruptive that it is often ignored initially, and the GCSE exam has a non-sandhi section, but must be mastered in order to read original texts