I know it's hard, but you did well and I'm encouraged by your story. Thanks for sharing.

Gracias Andrew por la corrección!!

The correction options isn't working for me, so I had to do this as a comment: My first contact with a new language was at the school, like the majority of people here, and that language was the English. Actually I just studied English to pass the course and I really hated it. I don't really like to the learn another language. When I was in high school I still did not like English, and the thing this also(?) happened when I started to study at university. I don't know why I was not interested in the language, maybe the English's course at high school was very bad. I started to like the language was when I met some students from Brazil - they were doing an exchange(?) in my college that semester and they spoke a excellent Spanish very well. This time I knew that Portuguese is similar to Spanish, and I understood a lot of things when they spoke. I then I asked myself, if they can speak Spanish I can learn Portuguese which should be easy. It was big mistake not was easy despite the two languages ​​being part of the same family because, there are new sounds. But with a lot of dedication and effort, and studying alone and speaking with Brazilian people on Skype for six to seven months, I can say that I speak Portuguese at a conversational level - not fluently yet but I'm still studying. Five months ago, I started studying English, but that is not easy - English is harder than Portuguese, but I know that I will achieve it. Actually this is my first time that I have written here, and my focus in these five months was in the listening, and a little bit of speaking. and I would appreciate it so much if you could correct this text!!