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Yes of course! It's like asking if Americans speak English compared to Brits. While American English and British English (and all their regional dialects) are mutually understandable just like Spanish from Mexico and Spanish from Spain which are both Castilian (Castellano) or French from Quebec and French from Metropole France....same languages but obvious differences because of various influences due to immigration, natives, slavery, etc....
Castilian can mean the Spanish language in relation to other languages in Spain, the standard dialect of Spain - its "Received Pronunciation," or specific dialects of north-central Spain (Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla-León).'
Mexicans only speak Castilian in the first sense of the term.
We understand each other almost 100%. When a word is said that we don't understand, we stop and just ask to explain that word. So if I say "tecolote" and a Spanish person doesn't know what that is, I'll just revert to the Castillian "BUO" which is universal.
A couple of years after that post, I had a similar incident at the Heathrow security checkpoint after staying overnight due to a missed connection. The friendly Pakistani-British guy (with a native UK accent) asked me to take off my "jumper".
I had to quickly deduce from British to American English for the item (definitely did not have jumper cables on me--they were in my car trunk at the airport parking lot back home) and realized he wanted my windbreaker jacket (that I luckily brought on the trip) in the tray and slide into the x-ray machine.
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