Yes this is a good thing, Spanish it's more similar to Portuguese and Italian, but be careful with the false cognates that's the only thing that will make you feel in trouble sometimes, but since that you are learning Spanish, you will find a lot more words that are actually that same thing that you expected than the other , and the pronunciation of some words are almost the same as in English, my native language is Portuguese and even that seems to be more similar to Spanish we have a lot of words that are false cognates like for example, "Pegar" in Spanish means "Punch" and "Pegar" in Portuguese means "Grab" or "Pick up, "Take it" and etc then i've noticed th. If you need some help with Spanish just let me know and i can give you some tips!