Fillers are a feature of spontaneous and authentic speech and properly managed, serve an essential function however the uncontrolled use of fillers can make a speaker seem unconfident, uneducated, unsophisticated and even unintelligent, losing comprehensibility and credibility. Non-native speakers also run the risk of using fillers inappropriately, of over-using them or of stumbling and hesitating when a filler would have been helpful.
This session reviews the purpose, use and placement of fillers, different fillers for different contexts and perhaps the best non-filler filler of them all.
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