In September 2019 it is 30 years ago that Levelt’s ‘Speaking’-book was published. In this presentation the development of the model will be discussed along with descriptions of a number of bilingual models that have been developed in the in course of those 30 years. This includes the models by Poulisse & Bongaerts, de Bot, Kormos, Abramson & Williams and Fernandes Boêchat. A number of core elemens of the model will be eluciadated with video-taped interview data from Levelt from January 2019 by de Bot.