What resources do you recommend for just speaking??

Hi! I’m in a fairly niche uni program with not a lot of students, but because its so niche quite a few people come from overseas for it. Mostly its just like, America, England, etc, so not a big deal, but this one girl came from Japan and her english is still… in progress? Obviously theres nothing wrong with that, and we still manage to communicate okay, but I cant even imagine how frustrating it must be to be alone in a brand new country speaking a foreign language to foreign people, like i am having a panic attack just thinking about it, so I figured I would try to meet her halfway lol.

Anyway! The main problem I’m having is that most of the programs I look at lean pretty heavily on kanji and hiragana and all that, and obviously thats really important if you want to like go to japan, but I mostly just want to be able to ask how she does her hair and talk shit about our teachers, so its a bit less relevant ahaha.

I’ve found a bootleg copy of Pimsleur, which has been my main resource, but I feel like I should definitely be doing more, I just have literally no idea what the more is that I should be doing.
I promise I did some googling before I tried to make you do all the legwork, ahaha. I know Stephen Krashen’s whole deal, and I actually like his vibes, he seems really really sweet. For immersion I’ve been watching Asami on youtube (Niwa-chan, baby, iykyk), and I’m looking at this ancient tv series, Learn Japanese with Yan, from like the 90s??? I’ve also downloaded a pdf of genki! I just havent touched it yet bc it scares me 😌💅

So yeah! Any advice or resources or literally anything would be amazing, I will take anything you can give me!

I literally cannot WAIT to be able to gossip without busting out the google translate 😩 you guys are doing gods work, much love