How to Communicate With an Intelligent Gummy Bear

Let's suppose you encounter an alien race that looks like a 3-meter tall gummy bear. It has discernible anatomy parts, but you don't have any idea of what does what. You are not sure if it would react and disintegrate you with a phaser, or if it would be just toxic and make you die instantly. How would you proceed to communicate in order to communicate with it? Okay. Here's a question from Grandpa from Norway. Let's suppose you encountered... What questions from Grandpa? Yeah. I feel like we know that Europe and it listens.