I don't really know what you're talking about, but the mental effort of expressing an algorithm in English seems similar to the effort of expressing some thought in Spanish. (I learned Spanish as a second language.)

Part of the effort is translating vocab, but the trickier part is changing paradigms to express an idea. Code has functions and for loops and control statements. English takes lots of connecting words and loops are trickier to explain. English to Spanish requires switching word order but even tricker is changing to different idioms for common ideas.