No apologies needed -- I assure you your English is a LOT better than my ability to speak any other language that you speak, so you are WAY ahead of me on that game.
Our ability to infer meaning from the words that are used is highly dependent on our fluency in a given language. Non-native speakers of any language often have very little ability to do this because they have to operate at a level of rote memorization for words and phrases for a long time. My wife, who speaks several languages, still struggles with this frequently.
