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Man, I've tried to get decent at Spanish, and utterly fail, even with friends that speak it as a first language helping me.
There's no way in hell I can think of anyone using English poorly as a second language as anything other than a peer. And they'll likely get better at English while I still suck with Spanish.
Besides, I know too damn many people with English as a first language that are horrible with it.
Anyone even trying to use another language is a great thing to me. Our ability as humans to bridge the gap between selves with language is a powerful and beautiful thing, so someone attempting to bridge that gap further is just as beautiful, no matter how well they do it. It makes me happy when I run into someone making that kind of effort, and I can take the time to help them do what they want, or joust have a human interaction.
Plus, I've never, ever run into a situation where just trying to help someone navigate an English speaking majority didn't end up with both of us smiling and at least a little better off than we were before. I wish I had the ability to learn new languages quickly and fluently. I just keep failing at it lol.
When I was younger, I genuinely wanted to study linguistics for a while. It was running into the difficulty with gaining fluency in Spanish that made me rethink that.
So, fuck hating on someone that's putting in the effort. I have mad respect for that.