I'm paying for 1 on 1 teaching 3x per week, we go through her textbooks page by page. Then I supplement with whatever solo reading, listening, and other studying I can manage to get myself to do throughout the week, which is admittedly little.

Going by the CEFR system I'd call myself firmly A2. I can understand even reasonably complex sentences as long as they're spoken slowly, I can form sentences for all the general basic stuff. I often struggle with the finer points of forming complicated sentences myself though, stuff that has multiple clauses and such. And I definitely struggle with following conversations spoken at a normal speed, even if they're clearly spoken and use only words I know well. There's definitely still a firm "translation layer" going on, where I have to think about what any given sentence means in English rather than just understanding it directly in Chinese.

I'm getting close to the point that I could pass the HSK2 exam if I wanted to, HSK1 would be easy ofc.