Thanks for clearing that up.

My recent trip was with an Englishman who speaks very little German. He is from London and has a rather strong accent. One interesting incident occured at a small pub on the outskirts of Munich. While I was using the toilet, he asked the waitress for the check. He had heard me asking before and he tried to imitate what I said. According to the waitress, she thought he had ordered another beer (bezahlen vs. bestellen). I asked him to say what he had said to the waitress and it was abundently clear that it had very little relation to German. How she got to bestellen is a mystery to me. But it was also clearly not bezahlen.

Since his non-German accent is quite noticeable, and what he wanted was not clear at all, why didn't she just ask him in English?