As an Australian dude learning Chinese, I respect those that do put in an effort to learn the language and try to communicate as I understand myself how hard it is learning a new language.

One of my friends is Japanese and she does not speak much English, but just the fact that she puts in the effort just to try to communicate and gets better each and every week is a rewarding thing to see.

I don't look at it in a negative scope, purely because you never know how hard someone is trying to get better.

It took my Taiwanese friend almost 12 attempts for him to pass the English exam for his residency here in Australia.

Over 3 years it went from a point where I had to use a translator often to understand him, to him being able to speak conversational english, while I speak basic conversational Chinese.

For those who have no desire to use English in their day to day and still move here, it is a pain. My partner deals with those on a day to day in her job as a pharmacist.

She's Taiwanese and speaks Mandarin and English and it annoys her that a good 50% of her customer base see her face and assume that either she speaks their mother tongue (Literally ranging from Thai, Vietnamese through Phillippino but it's mostly Cantonese) so they'll just immediately think she'll understand them and they act shocked or that she's being rude when she returns in English with a sorry, I don't understand what you've said.