language learning to overcome social anxiety?

I’ve gotten back to learning some Spanish recently, mostly listening to podcasts and reading right now, but at some point I’ll want to get better at speaking, as that will be very useful for a career (I live in America, so spanish is a niche but very useful skill to have). I have fairly bad social anxiety, but I figure joining like language learning discords (I’m in the language simp one right now) and chatting in a different language may help. Anyone have experiences like that, where learning a new language helped get out of a rut?