Is There a Word That Affects Your Fluency?

My crutch word is so. I tend to begin far too many sentences with so and it's just not necessary. You can elongate the vowel sound, which gives you time to think of the next word. But there are other ways that you can be a bit this fluent in your speech. It's just when you do them too often, the listener becomes aware and then they can only hear that as well.

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We are joined by the experienced English teacher and Spanish learner Craig Wealand. He is the host of the Inglespodcast and he knows his onions! (Inglespodcast – Los audio podcasts de La Mansión del Inglés)

We talk about disfluencies:

What are disfluencies?
What are cruch words?
How to reduce disfluencies?
Why do we make disfluencies (crutch words etc.) while speaking?
How can we become fluent speakers?
Craig has been helping the English community for more than 10 years! (inglespodcast.com & mansioningles.com)
How podcasting (or just recording yourself) helps you to become fluent in your target language.

YouTube version of this episode

http://www.inglespodcast.com/437 (Craig's version of this episode, with different intro and outro)

inglespodcast - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcb1AE_IC4Dg3Hshab06Rxw

Time stamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:06 - What is "My Fluent Podcast"?

3:09 - Listen to Podcasts to hone your language skills

5:37 - Oxymoron

06:05 - Podcasting as a language learning tool - Where to begin?

7:26 - The Vocab Man (A podcast about practical English Expressions)

9:46 - How long has Craig been podcasting?