I’m waiting to load in Northampton and have just seen the yard man, local bloke, explaining what he wants to an EE driver by speaking to him in broken English with a dodgy Polish accent, the best of it is it worked! 
in a previous life working at a university in conference time i was once present when a Norwegian student spoke to a Indian woman in Japanese, the indian woman managed to get from India to York without apparently being able to speak a word of English, and the Norwegian lass came to our help, especially as the Indian woman had turned up for a conference a month early… lol