diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/src/xmlstream/common.rs b/tokio-xmpp/src/xmlstream/common.rs
index 607473466e48c039d934de2fe81554d565ff77fe..1509a36832773c41aa4441750196ab04d7f2c6e2 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/src/xmlstream/common.rs
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/src/xmlstream/common.rs
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ impl<Io: AsyncBufRead + AsyncWrite> RawXmlStream<Io> {
         let parser = rxml::AsyncReader::wrap(io, p);
         RawXmlStream {
             parser,
-            lang_stack: XmlLangStack::new(),
+            lang_stack: self.lang_stack,
             timeouts: self.timeouts,
             writer: self.writer,
             tx_buffer: self.tx_buffer,