Hmmm.... I CAN speak, but I make grammatical mistakes and I don't have a good vocabulary.

The all time peak of my Russian language "career" is when I was in Belarus and went on a guided tour, with a Russian speaking group of women that I had got to know. We were visiting a church and I was just standing there, listening to the guide.

The church had an INCREDIBLY long and complex history. It had been both catholic and orthodox, and then it had been used as a jam making factory, a cinema, a prison and a secret operating base for partisans during the war.
Finally, the entire village where the church was located had chipped in and funded the renovation of the church in the 1990s, and the construction of a small museum.

I was really blown away when I realised that I had been able to listen to this quite complex story in Russian and understood everything without asking for any help. I was even able to ask the guide a relevant question about what she had said.

But then, just to bring me back to reality, the guide said something like "watch out for the step when you enter the crypt". I didn't understand the warning, and tripped....
LOL!!!