I have been trying to learn spanish for the past year and I feel like Im learning until I watch or listen to Spanish radio/TV then I realize just how much I DONT know. To try and track my progress I take a spanish level A1 test every month to see if Im gaining any progress. Over the last 6months I have taken the test 6 times. Worse grade was 4/10 best grade 6/10 which was my latest test so I am improving even if its at a slow rate. I was just interested in how other judge their progress?
Google shows me a lot of options and I really don't know what to pick. I just want to watch a couple of shows, just to see how much am I able to understand when native speakers talk between each other. All my teacher and even the people from Duolingo use a slow tempo, but when it comes to speaking in Deutsch with German natives, oh my god, they speak so fast.