The present paper focuses on the learning of the Spanish progressive by Romanian native speakers whose L2 is English and L3 – Spanish.

The aim of this study is to investigate how Romanians with English as L2 acquire the progressive in Spanish as L3 within low‐intermediate and upper‐intermediate language proficiency levels. To the best of our knowledge, there is no previous study which addressed the learning of the Spanish progressive by L3 learners with L1 Romanian.