You're not the only Russian person who's said things like that to me. I have a friend who's the only person I know who's read as much early 20th century American SF as me, but she read it all in Russian translations and always complains that in the English the language is stilted and boring.

And I reply, "Well, yes, but that's the way it always is and you learn to deal with it and focus on the ideas." But she says, "But when I read it in Russian, the language was actually entertaining!"