I find exactly the same when I switch from German to English. I find that German is so extremely structured that it really forces you to think about what you're going to say. One thing I love about German too is the fact that complicated words are really just simple words stuck together. This reveals some amazing extra meanings sometimes. A great example of this is the word for "vocabulary", "Wortschatz", which is made up of Wort = word, Schatz = treasure. A treasure trove of words indeed!