This article examines the communicative anxiety of multilingual speakers in second and third languages. Of the 532 participants in this study, one group (N = 346) had Spanish as their L1 and the other group had Basque (N = 186). Quantitative and qualitative instruments were employed to gather the data. Participants completed a background questionnaire and one about communicative anxiety. In addition, focus group debates and interviews were also held with the aim of getting deeper insights from the data. The results point out significant differences between the two groups of participants as to communicative anxiety and anxiety is different when the second and third languages are compared.