4 to talk in a friendly and informal way -- prate, skravle
They chatted about the weather.
5 (a) friendly and informal talk -- prat
women’s chat.
a chat over coffee
In practice, the confessorio could provide a snug and private meeting-place, in which priest and nun could chat intimately and perhaps share food and drink.
In ideal circumstances, meals are social occasions with a table acting as a focus for sitting and chatting while eating.
With spectacular enthusiasm she also chats about many other wartime topics: cinema, theatre, radio, sport, political rumours, social gossip and news from the battlefronts.
This article examines the possibilities that chat offers to foreign language learners, but because it is synchronous communication there are some practical organisational problems.
While many people tired of the off topic chats, and some avoided the chat page when he was on, most responded to him sympathetically.
Then groups of young people played instruments informally, chatted, exchanged, toured the school, played basketball and generally and genuinely interacted.
I contend that it was or at least it was more formal than the chat setting.
The chat logs were collected and analysed via descriptive statistics and discourse analysis.
