Conversation fillers fall under the category of formulaic language that we retrieve from memory to sound fluent. Conversation fillers will help you sound fluent like a native speaker. Here are some examples of conversation fillers.
While Listening
- Really?
- Right
- Sure
- How awful!
- Oh no!
- You're joking!
- What a pity!
- Auxiliary verbs to make short questions (as in "Have you? did you? Is it?...")
- Non-words (as in "mmm, uh-huh...")
While Speaking
Thank you for reading.
- Well
- Ok
- So
- Let me think...
- I mean
- I guess/think
- You know
- Like (as in "I'm... like... really sad that you losy your...")
- What I want to say is...
- The point I want to make is...
- Anyway,...
- Well, what I mean is that...
- Back to our topic...
- As I was saying...
- The basic idea is...
- kind of...(as in "he's kind of nice...")
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