In contrast, something weird happened when i moved to germany. I could immediately see the phonetics modifications from old german to old english. I could see the stark resemblance to sanskrit grammar being a sanskrit student in school. I could see what others dread to be long german words are actually combinations of words, which is like LISP or comprehensions very similar to sanskrit, each root word combined together. it was easy for me to make out street language initially and then later understand that while you can get to proverbial A0 level, once you start including german grammar, it takes some training to get to A1. but i could see first hand the indo-european traces.