how to pronounce talent

/ˈtæl.ənt/

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talent is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of talent in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… have a talent apartheid in South Africa …”

meaning of talent

Talent is a natural ability or skill that is possessed by a person or animal.

talent frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word talent occurs in english on average 21 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics talent can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that talent can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;