Interestingly enough (to me, anyway) is the second example is approaching the grammar of Japanese, and it's taken me so long to become comfortable with it, and

Interestingly enough (to me, anyway) is the second example is approaching the grammar of Japanese, and it's taken me so long to become comfortable with it, and in many ways that was an emotional or attitudinal change within me of acceptance. It's making me wonder if language learning ability might be linked to this grammar-annoyance effect, that those who can be more accepting of (for them, internally or naturally) "wrong" grammar in other contexts (i.e. other languages) will learn quicker than those who stubbornly refuse to drop the innate grammar rules they know even when the context changes and they're no longer correct.