It’s my birthday tomorrow, so we all went out tonight. There were also a lot of Spanish people in town who had just arrived that afternoon in Leeds. Now I was really happy with how good my Spanish got last year ( after learning with the Pimsleur courses for just 3 weeks), but everything I spoke tonight came out Italian ( where I went last year after Spain). Hmmmm. The research shows that second language learning has a positive, if any, affect on your native language, but I guess for two foreign languages, learning similar ones together is not that good an idea. Or it could just have been the beer. In any case I ended up speaking in French again, which seems to happen everywhere I go lately.