Talk

"Talk" in Japanese

交渉

kōshō

(meeting, negotiation)

会商

kaishō

(meeting, negotiation)

会話

kaiwa

(conversation)

噂

uwasa

(major topic of social discussion)

話し

hanashi

(conversation)

話し

hanashi

(major topic of social discussion)

講義

kōgi

(lecture)

しゃべる

shaberu

(to communicate by speech)

意思疎通する

ishisotsū suru

(to communicate by other means than speech)

話す

hanasu

(to communicate by speech)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.