Any bilingual user here also use English as a base for learning a third language instead of their native language?

Just got curious if anyone else also do that. My native language is French and I speak English fluently. Got on Duo to learn German for funs and I instantly just used English to German instead of French to German. The reason being that I would get errors not because I made a mistake in my understanding of the German language but rather my native French isn’t matching Duo’s European French. It’s can be frustrating at times.