Avoiding too many fillers

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If you use it after every word, after every expression, it's a little bit overkill.

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Overkill means too much.

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So you might hear some people say, "Like I was like thinking about like going to New

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York like."

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It kind of seems like this person is nervous or maybe they're a young teenager, or maybe

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they're just not certain what they want to say next and they just keep using "like" so

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much.

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So you might see people use this too much, but you can use it sparingly, and it's perfectly

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natural.

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The third filler word that we're going to talk about today is "ya know."

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Even though this one is "you know," native speakers often just say "ya."

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Ya know, ya know, ya know.

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And we can add this in our sample sentence by saying "I was ya know, thinking about going

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to New York."

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"I was ya know, thinking about New York."

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This doesn't change the meaning of the sentence at all.

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It's just inserted to give a little pause, and maybe you're not certain exactly what

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you want to say.

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Or maybe you want to pause for some dramatic effect.

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"I was, ya know, thinking about going to New York."

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Or you could put it in a different place in the sentence.

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You could put it at the beginning.

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"Ya know, I was thinking about going to New York."

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Or you could say," I was thinking about going, ya know, to New York."

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We can put filler expressions in a lot of different places in the sentence, and it's

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really natural.