French Help- Future Tenses?

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I am having trouble figuring out the difference between using the regular future (eg: Je parlerai) vs. future with present tense of aller (Je vais parler). What are the literal translations for these two phrases and when is one more appropriate to use than the other? Merci.

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The conjugation using the present tense of "aller" is called "futur proche" in french, which stands for "close future tense". Close future tense is a tense that refers to a time shortly after the moment of utterance. The action is set to happen soon, the action is imminent.
It goes about the same for the past tense: there is a conjugation in french called "pass茅 proche". The term talks by itself. The action described by the verb is very recent.
An example: je viens de lire le journal / I just read the paper; j'ai lu le journal (la semaine pass茅e)/ I have read the paper (last week); je vais lire le journal (imm茅diatement) / I'm going to read the paper (right away); je lirai le journal (demain) / I will read the paper (tomorrow).

I hope that helped.