My like 700 anki backlog is down to 300 (no new words, just trying to recover from a month of not doing Anki). Once the backlog is worked through, I'll start new word learning again.

I happened to be listening to a newscast and a German speaker came up. I actually fully understood everything, albeit it's just a simple sound bite of just a few sentences.

My speaking continues to be terrible, but that will likely be the case forever. Or seemingly forever anyway, everyone says speaking / writing takes the longest time to get, and I'm not in a position where I can seriously practice speaking or writing yet.