It s not really necessary, for conversational purposes, to learn the future tenses. However, it is necessary to learn other tenses more completely in order to read newspapers and magazines. Books weren t going to help us either, he said. No one could really expect to learn to converse from reading a book. Rather, we were going to learn the way children learned, by taking in language on a broad front, the way it is actually spoken.
Children don t really learn to speak by any kind of structured method.
They just hear spoken words and start using them and adapting them to their own uses. There s no way you ll ever learn to converse by having to think consciously of all the things you need to know and want to say. And don t waste time waiting for the perfect moment when you ll be able to use these neat examples of grammar and conjugation that you ve learned. Rather, plunge right in and communicate and risk being corrected. Don t be afraid.