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De tijd die je kwijt bent aan het leren van een taal hangt namelijk ook af van je voorgeschiedenis. Wanneer je een nieuwe taal gaat leren heb je al een aardige voorsprong als het niet je eerste vreemde taal is. Stel, je wilt Spaans gaan leren en je kunt, naast Nederlands, jezelf al aardig verwoorden in het Engels en Frans. Dat is positief. Je hebt dan namelijk al ervaring met het aanleren van een vreemde taal. Je hebt geleerd hoe je woorden kunt onthouden en je hebt vreemde uitspraken aangeleerd. Dit geeft enorm veel voordelen. Je kunt makkelijker leren, omdat je al weet hoe je dat aanpakt. Het maakt niet uit hoelang het geleden is dat je die andere taal leerde. Al is het jaren geleden, je bent snel weer vertrouwd met het herhalen van woordjes, uitspraken oefenen en zinnen vormen. Dit onderschrijft ook Aneta Pavlenko in <anchor>een artikel in Psychology Today</anchor>. Zij stelt dat je, bij het leren van een eerdere taal, al een eigen leerstrategie hebt ontwikkeld. Je studeert daardoor vervolgens efficiënter, omdat je deze leerstrategie hebt aangepast aan jouw eigen manier van leren en leven.
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As bilinguals, one of our greatest hopes is that the efforts we have invested in learning a second language (L2) will also pay off when we learn the third one (L3). The more languages we know, the easier it should be to learn them, right? A positive answer to this question can have tremendous implications for language [education](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/education "Psychology Today looks at education"). And yet researchers limit themselves instead to the non-committal “it depends." Why is that? And what does our success in L3 learning depend on?

The first undeniable advantage involves strategy. If you learned your L2 as a [teenager](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/adolescence "Psychology Today looks at teenager") or an adult, you have managed to figure out what strategies work best for you. The more [extraverted](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/extroversion "Psychology Today looks at extraverted") among us enjoy talking to target language speakers, while the [introverts](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/introversion "Psychology Today looks at introverts") prefer to pour over textbooks and grammar books. I, for one, am an avid reader and foreign movie watcher, always hoping that new words will find their way into my [memory](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/memory "Psychology Today looks at memory") effortlessly, in the process known as _incidental learning_. Research also shows that learners who are literate in both of their languages, and those who have metalinguistic knowledge, are in a particularly advantageous position because, among other things, metalinguistic awareness allows them to make comparisons and generate creative hypotheses.

Another area of potential advantage involves cross-linguistic similarities: learning a language typologically similar to the language or languages we already know allows us to utilize our prior knowledge through the process known as _positive transfer_ or reliance on already familiar sounds, words, and grammatical categories. Unfortunately, not all of the similarities we perceive are real. Sometimes, our interlingual connections are erroneous, leading to what is known as _negative transfer_, which includes, for example, our reliance on false cognates, or _faux amis_ (for a previous post on this topic, see [here](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/life-bilingual/201104/interacting-in-just-one-language)). It was such superficial similarity between the Spanish word _embarazada_ ( [pregnant](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/pregnancy "Psychology Today looks at pregnant")) and the English _embarrassed_ that led the [marketing](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/consumer-behavior "Psychology Today looks at marketing") people at Parker Pen to enter the Mexican market with a bold slogan: " _No te embarazará chorreándose en tu bolsillo_" (It won’t impregnate you by leaking in your pocket).

And here is where it becomes interesting when a third language is concerned. We know that our first language (L1) affects the process of learning other languages, but we do not always expect that our L2 also wants to play an active role in the learning of L3. Yet this is precisely what happens and it is the influence from L2 Spanish that leads English-speakers learning L3 Italian to produce forms like _aiudarono_ (helped, a blend of L2 Spanish _ayudaron_ and L3 Italian _aiutarono_) or _uccido_ (killed, a blend of L3 Italian _ucciso_ and an L2 Spanish past participle _–ido_).

But then again it shouldn't really come as a surprise that there is an interaction between typologically-related languages. My own Spanish mercilessly interferes with my Italian, while Polish and Russian emerge, uninvited, every time I try to speak Ukrainian. While inconvenient, this is hardly surprising. What is utterly counterintuitive is to see a typologically distant L2 (e.g., French) actively interfere with the L3 (e.g., German), as in the case of American linguist Larry Selinker who asked his German colleague in L3 German: **_Tu as_** _mein Fax bekommen?_ (Did you \[in french\] get my fax \[in German\]?). The replacement of the L3 German _Du hast_ with the similarly sounding French _Tu as_ caught them both by surprise yet this is exactly what happens time and again—the previously learned foreign language suddenly pops out. Such interference, dubbed a _foreign language effect_, is so frequent that it may lead us to suspect that our brain has a separate section for all languages learned later in life.

Studies using neuroimaging techniques suggest that this is not the case. Rather, it appears that language processing is not restricted to single sites in the brain but spread across various parts. In addition, the same areas subserve different languages of multilingual speakers. The only difference is that the use of the native or the dominant language is optimized and thus more automatic, and the use of other languages requires more cognitive resources. The shared representation, in turn, means that all languages are connected in the multilingual mind. Like our second language, our native language does not remain an independent observer in the process of L3 learning. Instead, it influences it, through both positive and negative transfer, in ways that are sometimes subtle and at other times pretty visible, as we have just seen. Our L1 may even team up with the L2 in messing with our L3. And our first language is not immune from influences either, as experienced by the English speaker who upon returning from a short, two-week, trip to Germany joyfully informed his friends that _He had drinken many beers_(although, in this case, we may also be seeing a beer effect).

All in all, we should probably expect that the effects of the previous languages on L3 learning will be diverse. On the one hand, we come to the learning process as more experienced and better equipped learners but, on the other, our languages are not immune to playing tricks on us. The best we can do is to relax and enjoy the learning process, as well as appreciate the insights we invariably gain about our languages and ourselves.

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References

De Angelis, G. (2007). _Third or additional language acquisition_. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

De Bot, K., & C. Jaensch (2015). What is special about L3 processing? _Bilingualism: Language and [Cognition](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/cognition "Psychology Today looks at Cognition")_, 18, 2, 130-144.

Selinker, L. & B. Baumgartner-Cohen. (1995). Multiple language acquisition: ‘Damn it, why can’t I keep these two languages apart?’. _Language, Culture and Curriculum_ (special issue on multiple language acquisition), M. Ben-Soussan & I. Berman (eds.). 8.2, 1-7

Aneta Pavlenko's [website](http://astro.temple.edu/~apavlenk/).

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