[Rogozhin]

In Australia, I attended a Japanese school for 3 hours every Saturday for five years (about 600 hrs all up) and I was always half/barely understanding stuff (because of my age, I had to skip a few grades and could never, fully catch up with the class). It was structured like an actual school in Japan and we used textbooks from the current syllabus.

I can hold a decent conversation in Japanese and convince natives into thinking I am Japanese (I lack an accent). However, when it comes to writing kanji and understanding semantics, I do struggle a bit...my vocabulary is quite pitiful too so I sometimes get tongue-tied.

I think I'd put myself at an intermediate-high level, probably more inclined to intermediate though.