0 present participle of talk
2 to discuss something with someone, often to try to find a solution to a disagreement:
3 to give a lecture on a subject:
The next speaker will be talking about endangered insects.
The argument was upsetting for us all - I don't want to talk about it.
He didn't talk about his exam results in case people thought he was boasting.
But these ways of talking about accounting were at best symbolic.
Grad students spent most of their time talking to each other about issues that interested them or the faculty.
These groups are more useful when talking about the cases than when using them.
The verbs speak and talk both generally mean ‘say words’, but there are some small differences in how they are used. Speak is more formal than talk.
2 Speak and talk with prepositions
We usually use to after speak and talk. In more formal situations, people sometimes use with:
