HOW IS YOUR ENGLISH?

I can string together a few words in English, and I can sing along to ABBA and Arabesque (and in the latter case, I learned the songs by ear). I almost always translated texts from scratch in school. I don't understand spoken English very well – I couldn't stand South Park at all, and I could only pick out words from phrases with Russian subtitles. Sometimes I have fun trying to translate random phrases from Russian to English. I can't translate some phrases in texts because I think, "What's the point of translating this, it's already clear without translation." I often get confused with all the tenses, and I hate prepositions and articles. So, overall, I can have a little chat with a foreigner, and they can even understand me, but I still know very little.