usage.fillers-muletillas
Fillers (muletillas): este..., pues, ¿no?, ¿viste?
Hesitation: este..., eh..., a ver, cómo te digo. Tags: ¿no?, ¿viste?, ¿me entiendes?, ¿ya? (Bolivia/Peru). Regional flavor: pues (pue'/ps in the Andes), che (Río de la Plata).
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Explanation
Este... is the pan-Latin American 'um'. A ver buys thinking time; digamos hedges. Andean pues attaches everywhere: ya pues, vamos pues, no pues — in Bolivia often clipped to ps/pue.
Recognition matters more than production: drop one ¿no? per paragraph and you'll sound natural; chain o sea + este + ¿viste? and you'll sound like parody.
Examples
Es que, este... cómo te digo, el precio no me cierra.
It's just that, um... how do I put it, the price doesn't work for me.
It's just that, um... how do I put it, the price doesn't work for me.
Region: global
Ya pues, vamos de una vez.
Come on then, let's go already.
Come on then, let's go already.
Region: global