Depending on your colleagues it might be totally fine to sit mostly silently for whatever time period you need until you start feeling you actually want to say something. The colleagues probably know your background, so they know there are large gaps in what you know about your current industry. Staying silent is at least better than desperately trying to speak of something you don't know about, IMO.
Agree.
Give the process time. Many people are not very patient with trying to explain things that they consider obvious due to their experience in an area. This slows things down for someone who's ramping up. But over time, you piece things together and get to the bottom of things.
Also, if you ask a question and it gets shot down, you learn something from that too. You have to figure where the edge is before people start complaining.
Staying silent is at least better than desperately trying to speak of something you don't know about
I don't agree. You should obviously not attempt to make it appear you know something you don't, but asking questions is a great way to show that you are thinking and trying to connect your previous experience to the current context.
