Sanskrit language
Sanskrit language belongs to the Indo-Aryan group and is the root of many Indian languages. If you know Sanskrit, you can easily understand many other Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, and Marathi.
According to the census, 14,000 people described Sanskrit as their primary language in states like Orissa, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and even Gujarat.
Is the Sanskrit language is the simplest or difficult?
Many people may feel that learning Sanskrit is very difficult. This is because it has not been taught properly and has the wrong notion that it is not a spoken language. Learning Sanskrit does not have to be difficult, and thus it can be learned with ease and fun. But few people may find it difficult to learn Sanskrit compared to any other language other than their mother tongue, it all depends on various factors like individual learning ability, age, source of learning, etc. Anyone who can learn any other language can learn Sanskrit if you put individual learning capacity aside, and that learning Sanskrit does not have to be more difficult than learning any different language. By this, we learn Sanskrit in a natural way that allows us to know the language’s live flow.
Sanskrit is a very ancient language, but nowadays also it is present, it is very much up to date. Sanskrit can be spoken quickly and used today and can be learned in a lively and enjoyable way. Studying the Sanskrit language may become complicated if the learning process is based only on understanding and remembering dry grammar rules in their grammar-translation-method. This kind of method will make it difficult for you to learn any language, so it is becoming less popular worldwide. If the learning process is built on exposure to the language’s live flow and criteria for learning the relevant aspects of grammar, then knowing the Sanskrit language can be easy and fun.
As already mentioned, it is not meant to say that learning grammar is not essential. But still, grammar is very important, it should be given the incorrect amount at the right time and in a proper manner. The growing ability to handle the live flow of language should be based on learning grammar and not the other way around, this is not only true with regard to Sanskrit language, and it is valid for every language.
In the world today, the most successful systems of learning languages are based on such ideas because an experienced person says that language should be learned naturally by repeated exposure to the live flow of the language in all possible ways such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. We learned our mother tongue not by understanding and memorizing grammar rules or memorized long lists of vocabularies. No one ever had explained the concept of verbal roots and the process of word derivations. We heard the language, and then we tried to speak, we listened, and we repeated. But sometimes we were corrected, but many times we corrected ourselves, and for this, we did not study grammar when we already learned the language to a high degree.
Finally, we have to learn Sanskrit with ease and fun, and this will change our learning approach by paying attention to the natural way our mind learns new things. Various methods of learning should be introduced and priority should be given in the proper time and correct manner.