Unfortunately, in spoken English, people use too many "fillers". This is probably true of other languages too.When people use too many fillers, it detracts from the conversation and also becomes annoying.One of the most common fillers is "um" as in this conversation:Question: "What sports do you like to play?"Answer: "Um, I like soccer and um, sometimes I um play tennis. Occasionally, um, I play squash."Another filler comes in the form of "you know". In this case the above answer would be something like:"I like soccer you know, and tennis and, you know I occasionally play squash."Can you think of any other fillers you have heard?Instead of getting in the habit of using fillers, just leave a pause in your conversation. That's what punctuation like semi-colons (;), commas (,) and full stops or periods (.) are for.
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You know.....it is... um....A very nice blog.Thank you for writing it.
Another filler: "OK".
haha :D well yea using of "hmmm" can be annoying too.
The problem is that they may be totally unware that can be a problem.
Hello Robinoz,ihope we practice english conversation without fillers
my skype: sadeq.alodini1
Ah Thanks a ton for posting this, you brought attention to what we often do!
Um...I can't think of anything right now. (^,^)
It's annoying when you speak with people they always interject 'like' after every single word.