My Advice: Do Not Measure Your Progress
You may wonder how Steve Fischer is so brazen as to recommend not measuring your progress.
Well, it has nothing to do with being brazen or not. And everything to do with results and staying the course.
I remember wondering constantly how well I was speaking Spanish and wondering why I was not perfectly fluent. Both these questions are nonsense.
Perfect fluency is like aiming for the stars when really you need to stay grounded and enjoy your progress, uninhibited by how well you are doing.
Stressing how fast you are learning is just adding stress to something you should be enjoying. There is no rush, the Spanish language, or whichever language you are learning, is not going anywhere. And you will be happy to know, you can study it for the rest of your life.