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I don't understand the detail there, but my dad has a similar illusion when he hears Filipino, it sounds like Indonesian except when he tries to understand it he can't. His Indonesian is not fluent and I imagine if it was the illusion wouldn't exist. I get it a bit when I hear Dutch (couldn't say what kind) that if you're not listening properly it sounds like English.
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interesting to remark maybe, as a dutchman in hochdeutsch spheres, whenever i go to germanophone schweiz some inner process makes that i think i hear dutch whenever people speak schweizerdeutsch. this illusion is quickly evaporating due to not being able to understand a word, but the instinctive reaction gets me every time.
i guess it has to do dutch and schweizerdeutsch and lower german not experiencing the hochdeutsche klangverschiebung hence remaining more similar in sound and intonation..?