u/Fluffy-Class4652

I've been studying Italian with a tutor 3 times a week for about half a year now and I just finished a lesson about prepositions where I could barely understand the sentences in the exercises - thinking to myself, "Have I gotten worse??" Then I realized that it's been 6 months straight of learning grammar and doing fill-in-the-blank exercises, and I still struggle holding simple conversations. My tutor insists on chugging through the grammar first, which I understand and agree with, but are there any ways to practice conversationally if I have no friends or family to speak Italian to?