> Either they suck it up, face often humiliation from native speakers from their mistakes (its quite something to see senior banking colleagues laughing like little kids and pointing finger at you on a project meeting because you mixed gender of a noun) or often just give up.

I’m French and, at least in my circle, I’ve never seen a native French « humiliating » a non-native trying to speak French.

And to me there is two reasons : - we know our language is difficult to learn - we are really bad when it comes to speak any foreign language

As*oles are totally a thing (especially in the banking/financial sector) but most French people are admirative of anyone who speaks more than one language. Because most of us can’t.