I would say this is very likely. I picked up a little Korean a few years back and though it's not directly related to Chinese (Chinese grammar is actually closer to English than Korean/Japanese) it's got the same kind of conceptual/contextual nature; one sentence can mean 10 things, plurals are understood, single-syllable-homonyms galore. I'd say that this is the reason German ruled for so long as the primary language of science (on top of Latin and Greek, of course). The case and grammar structure is harsher than English so perhaps better for expressing complicated ideas. Same sort of relationship for English to Chinese.