I speak just enough french and german to flirt on recon.com.
A long, long, long time ago, I spent one of my years as a mathematics graduate student in Paris; over xmas I went to visit a high-school friend
in Bamberg, Germany.
I said something to the Cab Driver which he found quite funny ... I had tried to say "I only speak german poorly" and it came out as "I only speak german obscenely" ... (only *bad* german).