I find it easier to speak spanish than understand it....
I get to choose how to speak and I can speak in ways to be understood.

But when I am spoken to...
I am spoken to fast many times... or by people with a very rural word usage... or very urban... or by purepecha people who speak spanish as a second language.... and I really can't understand their accent.

I have more control when I am the speaker. I can say things I don't know in creative ways... but all it takes it for them to use one word I don't know, a critical word, and I am lost.
One on one I can recover. I did today many times... they switch to another word.. I learn a little.

But overall... the struggle will go on for a while....
I need to study and talk more. read more.

Good luck to us all!