how to pronounce talk

/tɔːk/

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talk is pronounced in one syllable

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ɔː

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video examples of talk pronunciation

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

“… do you want to talk to this newspaper or …”

meaning of talk

Talk is to communicate with someone in a casual or social way.

talk frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word talk occurs in english on average 169.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics talk 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 talk can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;