Precerpt from My 20th Language: L3 Spanish - Spanish House
Spanish House
I didn’t live in Spanish House; I lived in German House. They
were located, however, just two floors apart in my Penn State dorm. French
House was there, too. So, it should not have been surprising that we would all
run into each other many times. For me, it was fun. I could speak French to my
friends in French House, Spanish to my friends in Spanish House, and German to
my friends in German House, which was where I spent most of my time and most of
my talking.
My roommate Brigitte, a native speaker from Koeln, Germany,
had a very close friend, Patrice, who lived in Spanish House. They had become
friends at the Mount Alto campus prior to moving to the main campus in State
College their junior year. It was a given that Patrice and I would become
friends, too—a three-some.
Brigitte was dating a young man who lived in the same
apartment as Patrice’s boyfriend, all of them friends from Mount Alto. So, again,
it should not have been surprising that they invited me to a party at the apartment
(where I would attend many more and where I met my future husband, he of German
heritage who spoke not a word of German). Clearly, there was a result of this mélange
of languages. I don’t think my Spanish improved other than perhaps pronunciation,
something about which Patrice was very adamant and would not move on in a
conversation if I mispronounced a word. That, I suppose, helped in the long-term.
The most significant long-term result of the association of these three
language musketeers was the productive union with the husband I met there: four
kids!
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