What Are Crutch Words?

The technical definition of a disfluency is any interruption in the normal flow of speech. For me, these fluences are like obstacles that make you hinder being fluent. Native speakers have disfluences too. It's not something that's especially prominent or assigned to language learners. We'll get into that later.

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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?