MY FIRST TIME LEARNING A LANGUAGE ON MY OWN PART.2
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MY FIRST TIME LEARNING A LANGUAGE ON MY OWN PART.2

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Hi everyone. First I want to thank you all for reading my previous post and give me some feedback, I appriciate it, I'll have in mind what you corrected me. Second, I'm going to start with this second part, so previously I told you that I realized I loved English for allowing me to communicate with others around the world, and that was basically the start of this journey.

English paid off. I got a job as an English monitor for lower levels thanks to my IELTS certificate, I also work as a waitress on weekends and study marketing and advertising, I felt like I was doing many things, and somehow I found myself thinking about learning other language. By the time I was whatching a Norwegian serie, and I loved how that language sounded, but somehow I ended up studying Swedish for a month more less and then I got frustated because I didn't really know how to start on my own. So I said to me, let's gonna try little by little and once you get the experience with something easier you can step up to the next level. I started looking back and realized that difficulty wasn't really the reason I quit, I wasn't attached to the culture of the language or maybe how it sounded (even though Norweian and Swedish are quite simmilar) I wasn't into the language itself, so a thought popped up to my mind: "If you're going to learn a new language, you'd better like it " so, following the thought I tried to make a balance between liking and ease and i had three options: French, Italian and Portuguese. Being honest I wasn't really into French or Italian but they were in the suggestions (taking into account my mother tonge is Spanish). The answer was almost clear for me, but this desition at the end was made because of the music, I fell in love with Mariana Froes' music, I listen to her since 2020, during the pandemic, that time was dark for me hahaha however her music somehow made me feel calm.

As the title says Portuguese is officially my first time trying to learn a language on my own and for this I mean without paying classes or a professor. I have to say, it's not easy, and even if you have the resources you need to find your own way to learn.

I'm really greatful with Mr.Salas, his advice helped me improved a lot my English and He also made me believe that I can learn other language by myself and this is something I want to achieve. I can't explain it, learning a new language makes me feel full, alive and happy. I just started and I'm not gonna lie, I'm struggling but I'm not gonna give up. I hope one day I'll write to you in Portuguese.

Thanks in advance to all of you for reading me and correcting me. This is the end of this chapter, and I'll keep on writing through this website and hopefully one day you'll read my first post in Portuguese :).

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