We usually recommend working on your senses first. It could be you already have one, and you can’t sense them or talk to them, so if you build that skill then you’ve got a good base to develop a relationship.
We have a few tutorials members have put together free and some are collected here:
Or there are great books and video courses you can try if you learn better that way, Robert Bruce, E.A. Koetting both have good ones, both are very practical.