Maybe it was even more funny taking into account widely known quotation from a poem by Mayakovsky:

Деточка,
все мы немножко лошади,
каждый из нас по-своему лошадь

Baby,
we all are horses,
each in their own manner

The poem is about a horse that fell down at the street and people were making fun of it. The horse was embarrassed for a while but then just stood up and walk away perfectly happy about herself.

Recursive fun, huh?

People often produce fun unwillingly whether they learn any foreign language or not. And your kind of fun was not really embarrassing IMHO.