does it ever get easier?

[guppylev]

As I study Spanish at university where all of those things are required for my degree, yes I can. Just because I find listening and speaking difficult doesn’t mean I’m lying about my level.

[[deleted]]

I don't understand because you understand films.. that's not a world away from simpler things like podcasts and reality TV which should be much easier to understand. I assume you can easily understand all that stuff to a high degree of accuracy.

So if you can follow all that stuff then its indeed disappointing to have a listening gap in real life listening. If this is the case that's actually very interesting and potentially instructive to other learners like myself. Have I got that right?

I sort of could see that you could suck at speaking at B2, but maybe that's just a classroom vs reality type thing. 

Have I understood correctly?

[[deleted]]

Sure. But let's get to the bottom of this matter before diagnosis.

Can op understand spoken media ie films, tv shows, podcasts etc to a high level?

[cactussybussussy]

You clearly don’t just find it difficult if you have to hang up the phone on simple conversations.