>>114
English is my second language, and i'm studying japanese atm. But learning english and japanese so far have been 2 completely different experiences; I learned the former pretty much through osmosis and too much time spent on imageboards, but I'm quite literally having to grind to get any semblance of progress in the latter. Still lots of fun though, the language is fun to learn in general.
>>297
I think the biggest advantage of being a native portuguese speaker, or BR portuguese at least, is the wide range of kinds of sounds in the language, which makes learning the phonology(?) of other languages much easier. I never had trouble pronouncing japanese words, for example, because we have 1:1 equivalents in BR portuguese for all of those sounds. Pronouncing french or german words isn't particularly difficult for me either.
>>301
It has always been grammar for me lol. A lot of times I can understand what each word in a sentence means individually, but not know how to string them together to understand the bigger, general structure of that sentence.