French people always get criticized for not understanding foreigners' broken French. It is not out of malice. It is because it actually is very hard to understand broken French.
A lot of very different words sound similar. A very simple grammatical mistake can completely change the meaning of a sentence.
And yeah, it's probably kind of the same in English, but French is not the linga franca English is today (see what I did there!). While we get a ton of daily practice reading/hearing broken English, it is not the same with French for people living in France.
People weren't correcting you to mock you. They wanted to understand and probably help you.
A lot of very different words sound similar. A very simple grammatical mistake can completely change the meaning of a sentence.
And yeah, it's probably kind of the same in English, but French is not the linga franca English is today (see what I did there!). While we get a ton of daily practice reading/hearing broken English, it is not the same with French for people living in France.
People weren't correcting you to mock you. They wanted to understand and probably help you.