What does 邪魔だったかな mean in this context?
While talking to my Japanese friend I'm doing language exchange with, I didn't reply to her message for a few days. I apologized for not replying, "先に返事をしなかった悪い悪い" and her response was, "邪魔だったかな?" I know "邪魔" can mean to hinder, get in the way or intrude. But I don't know what exactly she meant. Did she mean "did something get in the way (of you replying)" or did she mean something like, "did I bother you/was I a hindrance?", like she thought she bothered me, so that's why I didn't answer? She translated it to, "was it in the way" but I don't have any context to understand what she was asking me.

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Here's my suggestion:
A:「もっと早く返事をしなくてごめんね。」Sorry I didn't reply sooner. 
B:「邪魔だったかな」Am I interrupting something? 
A:「全くそんなことないよ。」Not at all.　「話せるのを楽しみにしてた。」I was looking forward to　talking to you.

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Thank you both! I thought it might be something along those lines, since when I asked what she meant, she just said "英語間違えた(＞人＜;) Was an obstacle？ごめんね"
But if that's the case, how should I respond and reassure her everything is fine and she didn't bother me?

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こんにちは:)
I agree with  Jonellさん's opinion.
(Japanese is my native language but as we all know we all have mistake some times... and have different perspective..etc...)
In that context, I assume that person thought "ちょっと迷惑(タイミングが悪かった？たくさんメッセージしすぎてしまったかも)だったかな？" or "(もしかして忙しいのに,メールしちゃったから,嫌(いや)な思いをさせたかな？" 
But, usually we tend to ask those stuff even it isn't a big deal , maybe  ' 伺いをたてる文化' =make sure to ask some this that was okay, we believe that is the polite way to act towards to others.

Hope that helps too :)
Thank you :)

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Hello, 
Sorry, I'm not a native Japanese speaker, just an N2 level Japanese learner. lol
I feel like your friend wants to say "maybe I was a nuisance for you" and that's the reason why you didn't answer to her. I don't not if "nuisance" is perfectly appropriate, but I guess you understand what I want to say. 
I'm really interest to see what a native speaker would answer.
Since no one has answered yet I hope I helped you at least a little bit.

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