Language mix ups

Most of us will have done it at some time or another, you're abroad, you're trying to make yourself understood to Johnny Foreigner and you've resorted to the Del Boy method of communicating.
You've repeated what you've just said, in English, slowly and loudly just expecting to be understood. Obviously you weren't but it's nice to know that it's not just us that have these problems. It also affects big multinational companies as well.