Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> "Brett Robson" <info@secret-web.com> wrote in message
> 
>>Don't panic
>>though, very bad Japanese can work very well, not sure why.
> 
> 
> This is kind of a universal. When I lived in Panama, the easiest way to pick
> up girls was to use pidgin Spanish.
> 

Would "hasta la vista" work?

A cringe worthy experience is while waiting to meet a friend in 
Shibuya, watch all the young gaigin nampa with their new Japanese 
sentences, no doubt borrowed from "Making Out in Japanese".