Although there is no language barrier, the difference in cultural background still has a significant impact on the conversation. In this short video clip students from five countries are having a party with the teacher. Among them are three native English speakers. The atmosphere is devoid of heat as everyone is in awe looking for an appropriate topic. They are obviously not familiar with each other. It seems that it is the teacher Barbara who bridges the gap with her linguistic competence, when at 0.49 an embarrassed silence falls which she breaks by asking a question. In particular, most of the time the conversation is dominated by native English speakers. Others seem too shy to give a longer speech, except for the few short questions interspersed with "Can you go to bed at the same time?", "Is there a perfect time to have children?" or backchaneling with “really?”. Genevoix takes a minute to talk about her experience adapting her time schedule to that of her children. Since the party is not a conference, here we speak spontaneously. Genevoix appears to pause briefly in his speech and occasionally repeats as in “again, again” and uses the “filter” function (BBC, 2018) such as “uh” and “so” to “create time for reflection and take action to fill a gap of silence” (BBC, 2018). The main topic is constantly about the experience of young parents laughs for sure, but they seem energetic and seem to work as filling the empty space between pauses There is no shortage of features in this excerpt, if so it would make for a very rich transcript