4 months and you’re already starting to understand and able to join in some? That sounds pretty good tbh. I’ve been partially avoiding learning whilst mostly l

4 months and you’re already starting to understand and able to join in some? That sounds pretty good tbh. I’ve been partially avoiding learning whilst mostly living in Spanish speaking countries for the last 6 years. Concerted effort is key but don’t beat yourself up about having difficulties listening, native speakers have the whole dictionary to pull from whereas you only have a few words and phrases with basic grammar. It helps to be around other people that are learning or have learned as there’s a lot of cracks to fall into between a direct literal translation. These are obvious for bilinguals but can’t be appreciated by native monolinguals. Try asking someone to go on a fecha with you to the movies. And don’t worry about being slow, find good people with patience.