Addendum of two little bits:

1) At a doner place near the hotel, the (Turkish) guy who worked there heard my broken (German) and asked me if I was (Polish).

2) In one newspaper article, I found the word "die" three times in a row, like "die, die die," which was something like, "Those, which the..." (it works in Germany since the verb appears at the end of the sentence in a clause like that).

I found that quite endearing, in a language.