Improving my spoken French and making friends

Hello everyone

As I have already indicated in my profile, I am a Ph.D student in French Literature, I came to Brussels, and got registered to the ULB to invest time and efforts in my doctoral thesis, yet, I think that I should improve my spoken French, I know the language of the "books" and not of the "street". I would also like to make friends with whom I can both have fun and practice my French.

because there are simple and daily terms that  I do not know