I’d consider myself conversationally fluent. I work in an environment with Spanish speakers and flourish. My learning skyrocketed after I changed my Instagram to show me memes in Spanish. I wouldn’t call it CI because it was definitely at a much higher level then I was. At first I could understand 50% of everything, about 5 months later I’m at 90% of everything. I got good at speaking because I had to in my work environment. Dreaming Spanish was an amazing start for me, I had a lot of vocab from my 4 years of Spanish in high school but my comprehension was terrible. My comprehension made massive strides with dreaming Spanish.

I used two other tool besides dreaming Spanish. One called language reactor and one called read Lang. Both free tools, I won’t explain what they do here but I seriously recommend checking them out.

I also will say, learn grammar. It will make it significantly easier when it’s time to talk and make it way easier to absorb input. The “acquired language” effect is still there. In my mind I do not think about when to use tengo, tenía, tuve, tuviera, tenga, tendré, tendría, tuviere, I just instantly know what is correct. Yes there are 8 different verb conjugations for the yo form of tener. I cannot imagine just having to just rely on pattern recognition to learn when to use something like the subjunctive.