Libby asks: "I've recently returned home after a year in Germany. How can I keep up my German?"

In this episode:

• It's normal for your language to go through "seasons"
• My Thailand experience, how I feel about it now, and why I'm not worried
• How I learnt Spanish and Portuguese... and didn't use them for years!
• The maturing of my Japanese
• Having lived abroad and experienced what it's like to live a language, going back to studying might feel wrong to you
• You're doing all the right things... reading, speaking etc
• So try to answer the question: "What role does German play in my life now?"
• A new language ultimately exists to use it
• Personally, I don't study my older languages much (if at all). I just use them.

What I do to keep my languages alive:

• Actively search out friends using language exchange sites
• Attend meetups
• Sign up to cultural acti