My experience includes when learning a foreign language I can listen and understand quite a bit sometimes or can read a newspaper and understand quite a bit, but speaking more than the basics with ordering in a restaurant, asking people their age, saying hello, how are you is almost the extent of it, but I’m quiet in my native language. Did live in a foreign country for a few years and it was fun to go to local stores and use what I knew of the language. It helps that a lot of people, especially younger adults and teens knew English.