Hello there. Today, I’m going to teach you something that’s very useful, as always, and important when you are having a conversation with someone. I’ve entitled this “How to Improve Your Communication Skills” or “Your Conversation Skills”, but in general, how to make people understand that you understand what they have just said to you. It’s a very easy technique, it’s very useful. I know in the Japanese language; you do this a lot.
These are called, in English, “hesitation devices”. All hesitation devices are either sounds or a few words that let the person know that you are thinking about the answer. So, in Japan, in Japanese, you guys go, “ano, nan deka, ano, ano”. Same idea, but in English, we don’t say, “ano”, we say, “uh”, or, “um”. Let’s see.
So, if someone asks you a question, and you are thinking of the answer in English, or you’re thinking about English vocabulary, instead of going like this, you can now go, “um”, and it’s important to make a thinking face, so that the person knows that you have, one, understood what they have asked you, and two, are paying attention to what they say.
So, if someone asks you a question, instead of going, you can now go, “um, hold on, yes, my favorite color is purple.” Or, if you’re in mid-sentence, maybe you, it’s not a question, maybe you are telling a story, and you have a very exciting story to tell everyone, and you say, “so yesterday, I went to the, the word, the word, park. I went to the park.” These hesitation devices will help your communication become more fluent, and you will talk more smoothly.
What a great art. I hope that you know how to use these now, and it will help you when you try and communicate with people, for thinking of what word you want to say next.
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Toodles. One very important thing when you’re using these hesitation devices, is it is for a very casual conversation situation. If you are giving a speech, or a report in a business situation, it is not very good to begin your presentation and say, “uh, good evening, uh, people, uh.” These things are annoying when people make presentations, and when people are trying to sound official-like. So please, these are for conversation and casual things.
Enjoy.
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