@Richard

Actually, as a language learner, I literally love those words (maybe except "like", because even for me a person using it sounds, like, retarded, no offence). Basically, they make your sentence more natural sounding, obviously making it easier for a learner to produce something that at least resembles English. Honestly, that's what I think.

No offence, but none of you can spell.

Er, where is the smiley thing to add here? It's a joke, see. Don't take offenCe.

These filler words are probably used by 98% of us, often without even knowing we're doing it.

But are they necessary?
Do they add anything to the sentence?
Should we avoid using them?

Dictinary.com came up with a short list of words called "Six words that can ruin your sentence".

Here's the link:   http://www.dictionary.com/e/s/umwords/#actually

I think you'll agree.

Good posting Phil...