Polish is even more simple in that matter. Aside from several "irregular" words and a handful of two-letter combinations, the pronunciation of the characters doesn't change at all.
How many tenses do we have in our language? Just three - past, present and future, with the future tense sometimes split into simple and complex.
Also, the syntax is quite forgiving. You could change the order of words in sentence, and often it will be still perfectly fine to understand like nothing happened.
One the other hand, there ale five grammatical genders, and countless ways to alter the word, like diminutives, declension, and so on. For example, depending on situation, the number "two" can be pronounced/written.... about 17 different ways.