Sometimes we use noises rather than words to hesitate. Suchhesitationvaries from one language to another. In English, the sound ’en’ or ’er’is used to hesitate. But if we overuse these sounds, we can sound very opposite tofluent.

Like, er, you know,well…

These words don’t have any meaning in themselves but they are very useful to make yourself sound morefluentandconfident.

這些詞有時候本身不具有任何意義，但是如果使用正確，是很有幫助的，為你在交流中贏得思考的時間，并且聽起來也很地道。

But if you use them too much, you can actually sound veryirritating.

大家要注意的是，如果你過度使用這些詞，就會讓人覺得很厭煩。

I think…

If I were you, I’d…

如果用I think...來表達自己的看法，但還不確定自己要具體說什么，就可以拖長最后一個音。