But they may be imitating us more than we think. When a program gets compiled, it gets transformed into assembly language which has no words and then into machine language which is just 1's and 0's. Thus a computer can compile a foreign language into its native language.
Machine language is the basis for all computers of a certain type.
It spells out exactly what a machine is supposed to do and how to do it. The millions and trillions of 1's and 0's mean little to most humans but are the only language that many computers can interpret. The same might be true of humans. Humans around the globe speak thousands of different languages. But our understanding of languages like English and others still translate into similar actions.