How Did You Learn How to Speak English in School?

When you were a child, did your family get any English practice? My mom never learned proper English till this day. So my little seven year old diabolical mind was like, whoa, if I learn languages, I can cut class and be rewarded. When it came time to learn French or Spanish in middle school, so 11, 12 years old, I chose French because when you speak Portuguese, you can basically understand Spanish. That's when I started studying French. And then in high school, in the US, that's around, you know, 14, 15, 16, I started learning both Italian and French. But these are all school level languages, right? You