Short YouTube monologue by Raele Altano giving a single practical exercise to improve conversational skills: pick a mundane object (e.g., water bottle, hair clip, cup of coffee) and talk about it for one minute repeatedly to become aware of filler words and to learn how to sustain conversation topics.
By the way, that exercise that I shared yesterday about minimizing filler words and picking an object in your room, just talking about it, and becoming more aware of when you use filler words. You can use that same exercise to be a better conversationalist, too. If you feel like you never know what to say or what to talk about, or how to keep the conversation going, pick an object in your room, the more boring the better, and talk about it for a minute. If you can talk about a bottle of water, or about a hair clip, or about a cup of coffee for a minute, and you can do that over and over and over again, you can talk about pretty much anything and ask people about pretty much anything. So try it.
