Find conversation partners for yourself to start talking in Chinese.
Begin your search from the neighbourhood, by attending a Chinese get-together, shopping in a Chinese grocery shop, volunteering for the Chinese community around you. In absence of all these, you could find one online at Hellotalk, Italki, Conversationpartner, Languagepartner, Tandem both as paid and free help.
Don’t feel shy to make mistakes.
Beginners must give away the inhibition of making mistakes. If it’s going to deter you to talk; you will never be able to talk! So I suggest, embrace your mistakes, know it’s okay to make mistakes during learning, and trust yourself to be better with each passing day.
Join a group course.
I recommend all serious learners of Chinese to opt for classroom study, online or offline, but in group sessions. In this manner you would have multiple people to learn with and you won’t feel awkward making mistakes around them.
Maintain a journal or a diary conversation.
When you are learning a new language you need to gradually step up your learning. The first step should be starting to talk in small sentences that help you convey the same meaning as the complex ones. Fill your diary or journal with connectors, fillers, commonly used phrases instead of just words!
Read aloud.
Read the newly acquired vocabulary loudly to yourself in the mirror or to your pet or a plant to feel secure while making mistakes in pronunciation. Try talking in sentences as though you are conversing with someone. Read the transcript of the audio clips you have heard numerous times before, and try to talk along with the audio picking on accent and pronunciation.
Shadowing.
To stay interested in learning Chinese by keeping it light! Watch Chinese movies with subtitles in English or your native tongue(if available)and enable Chinese titles to movies in English and your native tongue(if available). Speak up the dialogues as if you were the original speaker, maintaining the tonal variation, pitch, accent and pronunciation.
