To say the truth, even at the risk of seeming too much self confident: I don't use any filler, I try to stay far from those words, and still I can have good conversations and sometimes good laughs. A filler that used to be very popular: /cioe`/ A filler which is now very popular: /come dire/ Another one: /se volete/ and his bigger brother: /se vogliamo/. Please stay away from /come dire/ and from /se volete/, /se vogliamo/. Reason: /come dire/ is used when somebody pretends to appear imaginative or to think deeply, actually the truth is that the old-fashioned and humble /cioe`/ would have been more appropriate,as it clearly states: wait a minute, I have to think. /se vogliamo/, /se volete/, etc. are even bigger lies: the speaker is asserting asomething, for instance a political opinion, and uses this filler, which actually does not weaken his opinion, but weakens the RESPONSABILITY he or she is assuming by the simple act of expressing the opinion; I would not trust anybody who regularly uses this filler. An interesting note: our politicians (not really all of them) make big use of both the fillers I pointed out.

back channeling (very useful on a phone conversation): -- si` ... (aknowledgement + please go on) -- Ah (it is an assertion of aknowledgement) - e allora ? (Still following you, but please get to the point) -- (mmm mmm) (I'm still hearing and stil interested) : actually I d'ont know how to spell it, it is a kind of double musical note, with no wovels and no consonants) - eh gia` (interested + I share your view of things, of the event you are telling) a kind

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