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Chapter 22: To Sound Like a Native, Use Filler Expressions Like a Native
"Language is wine upon the lips."
– Virginia Woolf
As we all speak, whether we notice it or not, we always throw out expressions and idioms. Just to help
us think. It’s human nature.
Start paying attention to the expressions and idioms you use in your own language when you’re
talking. Most of them might even be unconscious. English people use them too. And a great way to
start sounding a little bit more natural as you speak, and also build your own confidence and have
some fun with it, is to learn a handful of these expressions early, and then use them a lot.
How to choose them? Listen out, in movies, when talking to your conversation partner, every time
you put on a listening exercise. Start noting down expressions you like.
Also, you might find that you really want to say one that you always use in your own language. Find
out the English equivalent and start using it.
Just to clarify, these filler expressions are the words and phrases people use 
in-between
sentences.
They are the expressions that sort of, how shall I put it… help you to find the words to say. They help
you to express yourself. They fill the silence.
Here are a few examples of these common phrases in English:
Sort of / kind of
How shall I put it?
We’ll see, we’ll see
What’s the word I’m looking for?
It’s on the tip of my tongue
To be honest…
Actually
See what I mean?

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You know…
Oh! I see
By the way…
Wow!
Erm…
I’m not sure how to put this
Of course
By all means
Please, after you
Anyway
Not at all
Believe me…
Precisely
I get you
I don’t get it
No way!
You’re kidding
After all
There are plenty more, start noticing them. And start using them. It’s a shortcut to sounding like a
native English-speaker. After all, we’re not always sure what to say either!
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Key Tips

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73. Learn ‘filler expressions’ early on, to sound more like a native speaker when you talk
74. Listen out for them in movies, and when you hear any native speakers talking – the
filler expressions they use in-between the content of a sentence
75. Play with them, throw them into conversation when you are thinking, have fun with it

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