Actually, Tibetan is soooo much easier than Sanskrit. The main issue is all those silent letters. Once we get to particles knowing some Tibetan should help, since they both use similar particles. Tibetan is largely (slips on linguistics cap) an isolating and compounding morphology while Sanskrit is inflected.

It'll be great if I can develop some sort of sense for this, a feel. That's really the only way you can learn it, I think.

Icarus