Talking

I need to speak to you. Formal. It is possible that: • – the speaker does not know you very well. • – this is in a formal setting, such as work. • – what the person has to say is important/serious. I need to talk to you. Informal. It is possible that: • – the speaker is your friend. • – the speaker is someone you don’t know very well, but what they have to say is informal. We usually use speak for more formal presentations and lectures, and talk for more informal ones: Dr Graham Foster will speak about the history of the region. Kyle is going to talk us through the benefits of the software and then Liz will talk about the marketing plan. When we refer to languages, we use speak: How many languages do you speak? Not: How many languages do you talk? I wish I could speak Italian. Not: … talk Italian. Speak usually only focuses on the person who is producing the words: He spoke about the importance of taking exercise and having a good diet. Talk focuses on a speaker and at least one listener, and can mean ‘have a conversation’: I hope I can meet you to talk about my plans for the company. Not: I hope I can meet you to speak about my plans … He always looks down when he is speaking. The focus is on his use of his voice to produce words. Speak focuses only on the person who is producing the words. I was talking to Maria yesterday. The focus is on the use of words as part of a conversation with someone else. We use speak on the telephone: About Ago Already Always Early Ever Hardl...

Also Known As • 🗣️ Mansplaining • 🗣️ Shout • 🗣️ Shouting Apple Name 🗣️ Speaking Silhouette Head Unicode Name 🗣️ Speaking Head in Silhouette Codepoints • • Shortcodes • :speaking_head: ( • :speaking_head_in_silhouette: ( See also • ☎️ Telephone • 👤 Bust in Silhouette • 👥 Busts in Silhouette • 📣 Megaphone • 👏 Clapping Hands • 🤫 Shushing Face • 🎧 Headphone • 🦜 Parrot • 🫂 People Hugging • 🪧 Placard • 📢 Loudspeaker • 🧑‍🎤 Singer • 🙊 Speak-No-Evil Monkey • 🔉 Speaker Medium Volume • 🔊 Speaker High Volume • 💬 Speech Balloon • 📞 Telephone Receiver • 💭 Thought Balloon

Talk with strangers TALK is your app for your conversations. You can make the chat rooms, you can invite your friends and you can talk about any topic you wish. Anyone in the room can invite new friends so within a few minutes you can have a room full of people discussing and sharing your topic. You can also join any other room and talk with strangers. TALK is perfect for meeting new people. Random chat with friends / strangers Not only can you chat with your friends but TALK will connect you with new people interested in your topics. Use it to expand your circle of friends, improve your knowledge of a subject or let other people know what you think. Real-time chat topics Have a favourite TV show and want to talk to other people who are watching it at the same time wherever they are in the world? May be you love X-Factor? When the program starts open the TALK app and create a room called Xfactor. Share the link with your friends and start talking about the show as it's happening. Ask your friends to invite other people and soon there are 50 people all taking about X-Factor. Privacy & security TALK is anonymous, there is no user registration. You only need to pick a username and set your gender. Not only does this make it quick and easy to use but it's very secure and private. There is zero personal information stored. Only the conversations are stored and those are automatically removed after 30 days. Ideas TALK can be used to talk about anything but is especially powerful...

Verb She never talks at the meetings. He did most of the talking during dinner. He loves to hear himself talk. I think she's talking a lot of nonsense. I can't talk right now. I'm running late. They were talking in Spanish. We talked on the phone until midnight. Both sides in the dispute are now willing to talk. They are in the conference room talking business. She had laryngitis and couldn't talk. Noun the noted author's talk on the state of the modern novel what good will all this talk do when we need to take action now? See More Verb What a spinoff for my character might look like The angry one that gets to talk a lot. — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023 But for Maestro Wu, a Kinmenese blacksmith who specializes in turning artillery shells from China into kitchen knives, any differences between Taipei and Beijing are best resolved through talking. — Eric Cheung, CNN, 1 June 2023 And here are the candidates who have announced their intention to run for president in the 2024 election: Joe Biden Political party: Democrat Age: 80 Family: Biden has spent the bulk of his career talking candidly about grief. — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023 The class is free as part of the foundation’s Rethinking Resilience to Wildfire series, and will include a short walk and talk in addition to classroom time. — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023 Go to college, never talk to that man again, find somebody new. — refinery29.com, 1 June 2023 On the podcast a...

• I don't like talking about my feelings. • He is often asked to speak about the decline of global energy supplies. • We need to discuss arrangements for next week. • I need to talk it over with my wife before I accept the job. • We're used to talking things through, so we don't have many arguments. • The bill will be debated in parliament next week. • banter • bantering • banteringly • bants • bloviate • bull session • buzz • catch • conversation • conversational • discourse • exchange • gambit • intercourse • pass • put the world to rights idiom • take/lead someone on/to one side idiom • talk some sense into sb idiom • ultra-casual • word-of-mouth

Share on Pinterest Westend61 / Getty Images Garrulous. Chatterbox. Long-winded. In love with the sound of your own voice. If you’re a talkative person, you’ve probably heard one or two of these before. Pointed comments like these might even prompt some worries that you talk a little too much. Maybe you challenge yourself to keep quiet for a day or two, but it’s hard because you just have so much to share. Not to mention that when you don’t join in a conversation, people seem surprised and wonder why you suddenly have nothing to say. Talkativeness isn’t all bad. In fact, it’s a valued trait in many professional fields. But when does the gift of gab become more of a curse? “Talking too much” doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. Not everyone enjoys conversing with others, so some people consider a few sentences too much. Others who love a good story might happily listen to anything you want to share. Sometimes, people might say you talk too much simply because they dislike what you have to say. Rather than paying attention to your actual word count, try exploring the space your conversation takes up and how it affects others. Do you cut off co-workers? Talk over friends? Dominate the conversation at family dinners? Say things that others might consider harsh, unkind, or offensive? Some insight on medical terms for excessive talking can also help you gauge your speech: Pressured speech This You talk more than you usually do, at a much faster pace, perhaps even at a higher ...