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Author: Dongfang You
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Whether you like it or not, when you are talking with a native English speaker, you often hear them using some words, phrases, or interjections that you have never heard of before, or that seem completely unrelated to the main topic of the conversation. For example, below is a dialogue between a little boy and his mother. The italicized parts underlined are this kind of "filler" words that connect the main content of the conversation.
Boy: Look, the whole room is picked up by me!
Mother: So what? You cleaned it up, so what? As far as I'm concerned, if you don't clean up your room, you're sleeping in your own dirty nest anyway.
Using such "filler" words is not unique to English. Many languages have similar ways of doing this. When you study and practice speaking in English, this book will help you understand and learn how to use appropriate "filler" words. It will give you more time to think, make your spoken English more fluent, and sound more natural. When you are face-to-face with native English speakers or those who are proficient in English, you will find this to be true.