Used to be able to speak Romanian pretty well about 5 yrs ago. Dont need it so much in Felixstowe just yet.
I used to drive primarily in the Canadian province of Quebec. Since my name is an extremely common one up there, I found that people just assumed I was Quebecois, so I had to learn at least passable French pretty quickly. I still comes in handy once in a while, since we have some trucks that go there, and a couple of our Polish drivers speak better French than English.
Over the years I have managed to become fluent in German, Dutch and Spanish and can also defend myself in French, Portugues and Catalan and a bit of the Basque language has penetrated the brain cells in passing.
KW Wrote:
But I have picked up enough to get me by and order a meal in a restaurant
I suppose in Belgium that is easy enough 
Frites Met Mayo
Frites Zonder Mayo
Two choices really 
as with most everyone else here i have picked up a few snippets of the other tongues.
i am by no means fluent or any where near it but i manage to get by in french, german and used to be quite good with the italian but have not been there for a number of years and like everything else in life if you don’t practice regularly then you lose bits or get out of shape.