@brss I'm very happy to have a person follow in this way and it's my ideal.
The language level is less the issue, it's more about your will-power and perseverance that is what is higher value and trumps almost all problems. So I'm honoured to hear you have that and language is not the first thing.

SIDE-NOTE: Relative to language... I've also enjoyed the experience of people who don't have language and had the best chats because for that reason we / they work harder to *study* what I write or wht we mean ... so indirectly they / we care more! Interesting !

This studying or caring can be knowing or not but the fact you look up things and think about them is golden to conversation which even native people miss or assume too quickly and can take years for native people to come back to looking up the words again as each word has minimum ~3+ meanings so good to study the dictionary :book (daily) to revise it all again... which is what I actually do so this is maybe how it works well for us this way. Happy learning!