If you are a total newbie for now what I would do is simply just try to talk to people. Like go to the mall or somewhere and walk around and have a goal of starting a conversation with 3 people. Doesn’t matter what you talk about, doesn’t matter if they are male or female. Just talk.
You are running into aa for sure. Reason I tell you to do the above is that you need to see that most people are open to having a conversation with someone they don’t know. Especially if they don’t feel threatened by them. So smile, make good eye contact and open your mouth and speak. Try this then let us know what you get out of it and we can build from there.