> Portuguese (a very hard language)

Hard to learn? For whom? A native Japanese speaker? English? Swahili?

The foreign service institute of the US department of state classifies Portuguese as a category I language (easiest to learn for English native speakers):

https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/

I feel like native English speakers who've learned Spanish tend to think of Portuguese as hard because it has more phonemes (and accented letter forms) than Spanish and (arguably) more grammar in terms of verb forms (e.g. mesoclitics and personal infinitives). This is especially when Spanish is their point of reference, or their only point of reference.

But I think the Foreign Service Institute is right and there's good reason, both theoretically and experimentally, to consider Portuguese comparatively easy for native English speakers!

It's absolutely amazing, though I've gotta say I kinda developed an aversion to Pessoa after it being crammed down our throats all the time in high school x)

Well, for me it was what made love the classes. I guess the teacher has a big influence here.