[jlg23]

I do the same when I have to converse in 2 or more languages daily.

"On a besoin a room fuer zwei Personen por tres noches!" -- me to the housekeeper in the Dominican Republic (she did not understand it, but we had a good laugh)

[goodcanadian]

I love the fact that I can understand that even though I consider myself largely monolingual. The only word I had to look up was zwei though it is clear from context that it is a number.