For all my years of learning Latin and Greek in school, it all went over my head. Declensions remained impenetrable as I couldn't instinctively map them to any

For all my years of learning Latin and Greek in school, it all went over my head. Declensions remained impenetrable as I couldn't instinctively map them to any patterns. In my case it extended to Spanish, which I found impossible to comprehend and articulate a sentence in because of a complete lack of interest for the classes I was taught the language in. A few years after school I took to reading Medieval Latin and found it quite easy. Not so much because the Latin itself bears the traces of Romance, but because I wanted to read Latin. As it happens my Spanish is now decent and Greek is coming along.