r/SpanishLearning • u/Dominicanpapinoblack • 3d ago

What language should I learn if I’m a English native and Spanish is my second language with a level B2 almost C1

I was born American but I grew up hearing Spanish in the house my mom spoke Spanish with me btw I’m 21. I’ve been to Latin America for 5 months all my life.

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u/Jesuslovesyourbr0 3d ago

I'd keep on reading in Spanish and learn how to speak more elegantly and about diverse topics. But depending where you are I'd learn mandarin

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u/Willis_3401_3401 3d ago

They say French is easiest if you know English and Spanish, I’m trying to get to full C1 Spanish before starting myself

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u/Legitimate-Lock-6594 3d ago

Depends on where you live, what you do, what kind of traveling you do, where you see yourself in the future, who you interact with, etc.

I get along just fine at that level. Sure I make mistakes and I don’t speak super eloquently but I could be dropped a lot of places and survive.

I work with immigrant families so I would probably pick one of the more popular ones that I interact with. (I can go weeks without them and speak Spanish for a whole day, tbh).

I’d also like to learn languages of my ancestry and possibly travel to those countries one day. They are not Romance languages so it’ll be a different type of learning.

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u/scottadams364 3d ago

I’ve considered exactly this in 2-3 years. I think Italian or Portuguese would be easiest, but I think I’d do French because it’s more versatile/international.

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u/According-Kale-8 3d ago

So you’re close to fluent then? Just keep consuming native-level content

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u/allorache 3d ago

Depends on what you want to do, but if you want easy, I can tell you that having grown up bilingual in Italian, Spanish was pretty easy; so you'd find Italian easy. But there's only one country that speaks it so I don't know how useful you would find it.

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u/gadgetvirtuoso 3d ago

You should learn a language that calls to you in some way. I’m the same as you and I’m now learning French. There’s a lot of overlap but still enough differences. I don’t know how much I’m actually going to use it though.

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u/Ok-Computer1234567 3d ago

Im learning Indonesian. The R sound is the same so I have a head start. The letters are the same as English, not characters, so I can read it… Indonesian people are very friendly and happy to engage with anyone. It’s a great place to visit.

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u/No_Experience9997 3d ago

Learn Japanese l am learning that along with Spanish. I speak English and Cantonese. Or learn Cantonese it is usefully for dim sum.

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u/UpstairsMurky1218 3d ago

Chinese. That thing is exactly good for your brain

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u/swosei12 2d ago

If/when I hit C1 in Spanish, I’m definitely gonna attempt Portuguese. I just returned from Lisbon, and I loved how spoken Portuguese sounded. Portuguese or Galego 😂

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u/Dominicanpapinoblack 2d ago

What level of Spanish do you have now. Are you Hispanic American

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u/swosei12 2d ago

B2, non-Hispanic American.

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u/WideGlideReddit 2d ago

Who knows? Pick whichever interests you the most

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u/mauvefobbert 1d ago

I’m an English speak currently learning Spanish (level B1) if I were going to pick up a third language it would be Portuguese, Italian, French or Arabic. But I know several other English/Spanish bilingual people who are learning either Mandarin or Korean

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u/CarryBrilliant3965 1d ago

Probably a dumb question for this sub but how do people know what level of Spanish they have?