At what point is it acceptable to assume I'll never be about to understand spoken Japanese? I have done over 5,000 Japanese sentences as per the AJATT method, gave that up for vocab in isolation and recently started a Anki deck where I am required to hear the word and translate. You'd think I'd be better at it by now. Granted there are periods of true clarity as though it were my first tongue but those are extremely few and far between.