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Avi K
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Ubitquin, no. I would not the meaning of either word if I had not been told.

CTl, apparently Ladino is closer to Spanish than Yiddish is to German. My grandmother on my mother’s side a”h was from Turkey and spoke Ladino, which she called Spanish (apparently because a variant name is Spaniolit). She could converse with people from Latin America but when the Japanese Interior Minister interviewed a rosh yeshiva during WW2 he needed an interpreter despite being fluent in German (however, I have a friend whose wife is from Switzerland and she says that Yiddish is similar enough to Swiss-German for her to understand if the person speaks slowly).
BTW, just as there are differences between the British and American English there are differences between French and Canadian French and the Spanish of Spain and Latin America.