I've recently started playing the acoustic guitar.
Thats cool. Are you any good? The sounds produced by the guitar by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air is just a beautiful sound.
I'm getting better, slowly but surely. It's surprisingly difficult to play, for such a popular instrument.
Well keep at. It takes a lot of practice but you'll get there. You picked the right instrument though in my opinion as I like the sound from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the guitar's body
The acoustic guitar really does sound very beautiful. It's well-suited for so many different musical styles, too. Very versatile instrument.
Very true. The modern shape of the guitar as we know it came about in the renaissance era 
I had no clue that the guitar's history went back so far. Did it derive from the lute or something? I don't know much about old instruments haha
I would think so as the lute is also a stringed instrument neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity. 
Yeah, that sounds a lot like a guitar. All stringed instruments kind of look like that, too.
type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. The modern guitar was preceded by the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and the five-course baroque guitar, all of which contributed to the development of the modern six-string instrument.
There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar: the classical guitar (Spanish guitar/nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic
Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar). The sound waves from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the guitar's body, creating sound. This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to strengthen the vibrations of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E A D G B E.