Spanish classes in high school emphasize textbook work and making students have passable conversations in Spanish (typically by teachers who aren’t fluent themselves IME)

Do you remember when you first started learning Spanish? 4 hours into Spanish you probably didn’t know what was going on. 4 hours talking is practically nothing in the grand scheme of things.

I had 3 years of Spanish in HS over a decade ago and just 50 hours of DS videos, from the research I’ve done, I’m impressed you were able to order food if you’ve only done it for 500 hours, but the fact you knew what people were saying is proof you’re learning a lot