That analogy breaks down as soon as you know Chinese. Python's syntax is intended to look as if it could be English (from ... import ... as ...), but you could build a Chinese Python based on the same principle of choosing a few phrases and turning them into templates for abstract syntax. It would look very unlike APL. (Convince yourself: http://www.chinesepython.org/)
The whole point of APL is that it doesn't try to appear like an existing human language, so the concepts relevant for programming can be expressed with more concision.
If you read the history how Iverson notation became APL programming language, you might agree that APL is more natural as it grows from mathematical notation which accumulated over centuries. Actually, APL was initially used to teach basics of programming, it was considered to be easier for many, especially non-programmers. Funny that now Python takes a lot of that role.
The whole point of APL is that it doesn't try to appear like an existing human language, so the concepts relevant for programming can be expressed with more concision.