This makes sense for my path to math. In high school I was bad at math and good at learning languages. Then I started learning Python and realized that it was just like learning a language. Then at some point I realized math notation was just another language for expressing the kinds of things you could express in Python. Now I'm in a job where I do math every day and I read math textbooks for fun.

It helped that Python was meant to resemble natural language. I had learned C++ and Perl before but they never stuck, because I never made the connection to language. Ironically, since Perl was designed by a linguist!