[thequadehunter]

Same. I've immersed in Japanese for 10+ years and lived in the country. I grew up monolingual, and after that experience I felt like my brain "expanded". I think being able to understand concepts that didn't even exist to me before did that.

For example, I remember after finding out what "tsukkomi" and "boke" are in Manzai I started seeing it play itself out in English conversations with my friends. It's kind of weird seeing a concept play out that was there the whole time, but you re-shaped your thinking to observe and categorize it.