Do her children also speak Spanish, and if so, converse with their mother exclusively in that language? If so, it would almost literally be their "mother tongue", as with the Dutch princesses.
And earlier on, with the Bavarian royals in the so-called "Spanish" branch of the house of Wittelsbach. In the next generation, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand married his cousin, Infanta Maria de la Paz, who (like her aunt and mother-in-law) also moved to and settled in her husband's land. But as he already spoke fluent Spanish (thanks to his mother), I would imagine that the couple conversed in that language at least in private, meaning their household.
Outside, it's anybody's guess as to how long it took for Princess Ludwig Ferdinand to learn German. Her own niece and daughter-in-law, Infanta Maria Teresa, stayed in Spain, since her son Ferdinand was the one to uproot himself from Bavaria and settled in his wife's native land. So certainly there was no reason for anybody to speak any language other than Spanish, in their household.
That being said, it's conceivable that Maria Teresa might have known some German, since her mother, Queen Maria Cristina, was by birth an Habsburg archduchess ...
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