This is just mean, judging someone who wasn't taught the nuances differentiating language from dialect.
There's 100%, a partial understanding among romance languages. I've communicated with humans in real life bc of this understanding.
And she's clearly intellectually curious and open to learning by asking this online. So we should feel bad that the education system failed this fantastic woman.
Low effort. Downvote. Borderline victim blaming. This isn't Reddit. Don't pick on people.