How can you preserve your foreign language skills?

[Nintendo-64]

When I was in primary school. I have taken Russian, French, German and Spanish lessons. Even though I have never been fluent at any of those languages , I was able to speak them at a decent level, enough to communicate with people at least. This was about 12 years ago though, nowadays I don't even remember a single word of Russian, French, Spanish German except some basic words but it's ok for me since there was no point for me to learn those languages in the first place anyway. I haven't even used them once in daily basis for years.

[ZS007]

you have to practice them. listening to them is not enough. You never completely unlearn the language you learnt. Fun fact your dominant language (could be your native language that you use all the time) can change if you for example move to a new country and in that case start using another language more often. Then that language will become the dominant one.

[dustybiker]

Maybe listening to audio books in those languages, keep them fresh?

[AviatorTom]

To maintain any kind of fluency, you have to practice the language. There are many YouTube videos in various languages. Watch/listen to them, replay the sections you don't fully understand and use google translate whenever you have to.

There are also many online course you can do, some of them free.

[Drumlin2001]

Make a day of the week French day, Spanish day, Russian day, and talk yourself through everything you do that day in those languages.

[Babygirl_S]

Talk to native speakers of that language and watch movies. Reading also helps.

[art84]

Seems like a waste to learn those languages if you don't speak them every day or watch movies that have those languages in them.

[Jltakk]

I argue with myself in said languages. No, really, that's how I remember them all.

[ODC2112]

You have to use services like italky or cambly.

[Rania05]

You wasted your recourses too much

[maximumpower]

Listen to shortwave radio broadcasts.

[BLP11520]

Brush up on them you tube

[_Just_A_girl_]

Practice