[ineedasername]

Yep, that fits. And it's been a while since this coursework so I may be wrong, but IIRC one advantage of being multi-lingual and specifically bilingual is the ability to more easily shift to different systems of abstractions. I think the wider range of idiomatic metaphors etc. also presented a more multi-perspective mode of viewing the world. Somewhat on that topic, I can highly recommend the book "Metaphors We Live By", by George Lakoff. Truly a fantastic book & revelatory in showing just how extensively we don't* use literal language and instead rely quite heavily on metaphor.

One brief example is to say "up" when the literal is "increase". "Up" is a physical directions, yet we might say "My bank account balance keeps going up". Really, the $ number is increasing though. Metaphor is everywhere.