I might be more sensitive to this topic because I'm currently learning Japanese, which has the interesting quirk of doing several grammatical constructions back

I might be more sensitive to this topic because I'm currently learning Japanese, which has the interesting quirk of doing several grammatical constructions backwards compared to most European languages (e.g. verbs always come at the end of the sentence). If "readable" had a correlation with "similar to English", Japanese would be utterly indecipherable.