How long did it take you to start sounding natural and fluid in your TL while speaking?

I currently sound very choppy with my speech in my TL. I’m being patient and giving myself grace, but I’m just curious about when other people started having the speaking breakthrough of stringing words together naturally. Did you do something very intentional like a technique? Was it simply just push through the pain of sounding awkward and choppy? I’m just wondering how the heck everything starts flowing together. Do you remember how it happened?