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How to pronounce speaking in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking
Type of address, speech
Has types public debate, reading, recital, recitation, debate, disputation
Derivation speak
Type Words
Synonyms speech production
Type of utterance, vocalization
Has types whisper, whispering, speech, voicelessness, susurration
Derivation speak
Type Words


human beings--the speaking animals.
a speaking part in the play.

Examples of speaking

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Strictly speaking, they examined a grand total of nine countries, most European.
From the sacbee.com
The ones speaking to media types surely seem a lot older than students would be.
From the washingtontimes.com
He is now speaking of starting Mulim courts in the US to uphold their laws here.
From the washingtontimes.com
They quickly boarded the team bus and headed home without speaking to the media.
From the kansas.com
I'll always remember speaking with him at length during spring training in 1999.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Hollande, speaking on RTL-Radio, said voting is the only way toward real change.
From the upi.com
About 60 percent of the students are Spanish-speaking English-language learners.
From the dailyherald.com
Speaking with survivors of the massive 2008 Sichuan earthquake, Wen openly wept.
From the newsweek.com
Generally speaking, there are a couple of givens for candidates in the district.
From the freep.com
More examples
  • Speaking(a): capable of or involving speech or speaking; "human beings--the speaking animals"; "a speaking part in the play"
  • The utterance of intelligible speech
  • Public speaking: delivering an address to a public audience; "people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking"
  • (speak) talk: express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
  • (speak) talk: exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"
  • (speak) use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
  • In sociolinguistics, SPEAKING or the SPEAKING model, is an model socio-linguistic study (represented as a mnemonic) developed by Dell Hymes. ...
  • Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large (usually >10,000 different words) vocabularies. ...
  • (SPEAK!!!) SPEAK!!!! is the fourth album from The Mad Capsule Markets. The album was recorded in England. Two songs were featured from the original Berrie recording. The album displayed a more experimental and darker side to their music, evident in the closing song "Kachiku". ...