Obstacles

An obstacle I have come across in my life is learning two languages at once. I was learning to read and write English at the same time as French, in a French school. I'd often switch spelling on words is they sounded the same in both languages, and I spelt everything phonetically. A great help for this was getting a laptop and frequently using word and spell check on a daily basis. But before that, I had to learn words by heart, and still made a load of spelling mistakes, that - at the moment, I find completely ridiculous. I have also simultaneously learned American and British spelling for words, and depending on my mood, or the influence of those around me, or simply not being able to tell which is Canadian, American or British spelling. Then, I often end up with essays containing a wide variety of spelling, and I can't tell what I've done wrong.