There's a moment, mid-sentence, when the word doesn't come. Two seconds of nothing — and you switch back to English. Spanish speakers have that same gap. They just fill it out loud, in Spanish, and keep going.
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You already know more Spanish than comes out of your mouth. The problem is the gap between knowing it and saying it — and English is what rushes in to fill that gap. These phrases hold the space open in Spanish while your brain finishes the sentence.
You've been asked something and you don't yet know how the sentence ends. This buys you the whole opening.
You started, you lost the thread, and you want to say it better. This gives you a second run at it.
The most time you can buy in one phrase — and it's what a native speaker says in exactly the same spot.
I'm Christian. I teach Spanish to adults who can already read it, study it and pass tests in it — and still go quiet when someone asks them a question.
The sheet is free and there's nothing to buy at the end of it. If it's useful, you'll hear from me now and then with more of the same.