After you can read a bit of Chinese, a lot of times you find you’re still reading language-neutral stuff in your native language.
(Yep, “you” means “I” — see here for a parallel far from English)
For example, I mentally read…
143,000 as ‘a hundred and forty-three thousand not “shísìwàn sānqiān” (十四万三千)
2+2 as ‘two plus two’ not “èr [...]
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