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Welcome to the A to Z english podcast.
My name is Jack, and, well, so you know, like, I mean, actually, I'm here with my co host, Sochil, of course.
And today we are.
I don't know where we are.
Are we?
I think we're in the vocabulary spotlight, I would say probably, yeah, something like that.
We're talking about fillers.
Yeah.
So, fillers and soto, what are like, what are fillers like?
What, what are they?
What's the purpose?
Well, Jack, you gave us a great demonstration.
They're kind of like time buyers.
When you're trying to think of something to say or the word you're thinking of or what you're going to say in a conversation.