It's very difficult to make idle talk in English.
One of the main reasons for it, we Japanese tends to expect a person to guess what we want to say, even if we say only a word. In other words, Japanese can have conversation using noun only in English, maybe, but we must say in detail, logically, and clearly when we talk with a foreigner. At that time, we recognize how we don't know English words about small things. That's why I try to write English [diary]. Vocabulary is the most important, and daily English thinking and trying to write something does not matter bring up it, surely.