The other day I had the best time with the lady who works at the dry cleaners kitty corner from our house. She is an older Japanese woman and barely speaks English. As we were attempting to communicate, she knew that her English was terrible and it just amused her to no end. She kept laughing and laughing as we slowly went through the process of filling out the form, etc.
One thing that struck me though was that even though we didn't know each others languages, our laughing was IN the same language. It was interesting to me... her musical laughter. No accent, no unique cadence... just pure laughter. Laughter you will here all over the country in a hundred different languages... the laughter is universal. She had me laughing too and out onto the street and to the train.