"She speaks English by your description, so explain it to her in English. Just give her examples of situations.
" Yes indeed.
Good rule of thumb, do not try to speak to someone in a foreign language you do not fully understand. At best you will make fool of yourself at worst you will be completely misunderstood and even offend someone.
English is a Germanic (mostly) language while Romanian is a Latin language so there is a lot of differences between them.
You cannot speak a language by simply substituting words. [People who think they can speak Irish take note]
And, of course I slight mispronunciation of a word can cause it to mean something completely different. [For Example, in English,
SHIT and SHEET sound the same to many foreign ears but mean different things
]
And “college” and “colleague” sound the same in English but mean different things. : )