{"id":444,"date":"2026-04-09T05:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/?p=444"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:07:22","slug":"fillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/2026\/04\/09\/fillers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fillers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are they? <em>Fillers<\/em>\u00a0are sounds, words or phrases that we use while we think about what to say. The word\u00a0<em>filler<\/em>\u00a0comes from the word &#8220;fill&#8221;+er, for example &#8220;fill a glass with water&#8221;, &#8220;fill a page with words&#8221;, and in this case, &#8220;fill silence with sound&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you use fillers in Japanese?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Some common fillers in English<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Sounds<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Words<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Phrases<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hmm<\/td><td>So<\/td><td>I mean<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Uhh<\/td><td>Well<\/td><td>You know<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ahh<\/td><td>Actually<\/td><td>I guess<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mm<\/td><td>Like<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Right<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Man<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Task 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a conversation about the following topic in&nbsp;Japanese.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you like ramen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do&nbsp;not&nbsp;use fillers &#8211; \u3048\u30fc\u3001\u306a\u3093\u3060\u308d\u3046\u3001\u306a\u3093\u304b\u3001\u307e\u3041\u3001\u306a\u3093\u3068\u3044\u3046\u3060\u3051\u3000\u00d7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Task 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have the same conversation, in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each group member, choose two fillers from the list above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use that filler every time you stop to think about what to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are they? Fillers\u00a0are sounds, words or phrases that we use while we think about what to say. The word\u00a0filler\u00a0comes from the word &#8220;fill&#8221;+er, for example &#8220;fill a glass with water&#8221;, &#8220;fill a page with words&#8221;, and in this case, &#8220;fill silence with sound&#8221;. Do you use fillers in Japanese? Some common fillers in English: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/2026\/04\/09\/fillers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fillers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}