Speaking a new language takes courage before it sounds fluent.

The hardest part of a new language is not vocabulary. It is the willingness to be visibly worse at communicating than you actually are, in front of a stranger, while your accent announces the gap. Fluency is on the far side of a stretch where you sound less intelligent than you feel, and most people quit inside that stretch rather than at the grammar.

Say the imperfect sentence this week rather than reaching for the language you already have. Expect to be corrected and treat it as help.