--- title: "How to pronounce \"talking at\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"talking at\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/QqTtrc6ifbk/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/talking-at" --- # How to pronounce "talking at" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/tælkɪngæt/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **tal·kin·gat** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "talking at" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "And you are looking down down down down, and you're about to dive into a pool of toxic sludge. Talking at Google is my scary thing for the day." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 30:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqTtrc6ifbk&t=1851s) ### Example 2 > "on it's right there you know and so it and and you're talking on Prime Time television you're talking on cable you're talking at the Emmys you're talking at the You Know music video awards and so all of a sudden it just became you know it was like coming out every day it was really kind of it was a little crazy but I have to say I it never was an issue so it was it was" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epFv_0-2DW8&t=299s) ### Example 3 > "grounded in the experience of the robot but what Sophia needs to do to be Sophia is talk about sports or or the weather or or robotics or the conference she's talking at like yeah she needs to be fluent talking about any damn thing in the world and she doesn't have grounding for for all for all those all those things so there's there's this just like I mean Google Mina and Facebook's chap I don't have grounding for what they're talking about about either so in in a" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 183:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpSmCKe27WE&t=11000s) ### Example 4 > "negotiations to listen because a lot of people you know kind of think they can overpower someone with right just talking at them right yeah and and what they're what they're called is um they can't hold a job yeah yeah you know you you and there are a lot of people that are very visible that are doing that" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 35:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bUGVETockI&t=2119s) ### Example 5 > "Iran hard to use his language again later tonight. And he sort of said you can take that as my little warning to you. And then when Donald Trump was talking at the NATO summit in Anchora, and he's had a few appearances in public there today, he said this particularly ear-catching thing about the Iranian regime. >> I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them anymore. They're scum. You know what scum is? They're scum. They're" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_s8wMU8zZ4&t=278s) ### Example 6 > "sort of agreed timetable and a coronation to use her word. Lucy Powell who is the deputy leader of the Labour Party we understand she's going to be talking at a Union Fire Brigades Union conference saying something very similar, talking about the need for Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting, Andy Burnham to all work together. You know, I just sort of wonder if that's going to become a growing voice in this conversation. And it won't be everybody," - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUX-g7ItmQg&t=1377s) ### Example 7 > "was taken in 1982 this picture was taken two years ago so we're still at it over 20 years later we're still working together I was talking at lunch over the fact that I worked with this one Shaman for 24 years and he started pulling out treatments for cancer two weeks ago 24 years telling me he didn't know nothing about this stuff so these people work on a different timeline than we do so it may seem counterintuitive to go to people" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 24:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALG5NQgcMqQ&t=1444s) ### Example 8 > "Is there something in all of this that gives you hope that we could get somewhere? Well, the fact that the two sides are talking at all, at least talking through the Americans, is a certainly an optimistic sign. And also, I I and I think your correspondent alluded to this. All sides of the conflict seem to have realized that the conflict is now in some kind of hurting stalemate. Where neither side, given what they are" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fttpi3U-mhg&t=320s) ### Example 9 > "we stood outside the North Korean Embassy for days on end nobody would say anything to us these were sort of low-level talks North Korea was not talking at all then and now at least they're talking they're looking for ways forward so JY The World Is Right led by Donald Trump to invest trust in the North Korean leader yeah I think it's definitely um I definitely agree with uh Eric's comments on the progress there was I think drastic progress and um and" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alDpkfE-Tus&t=435s) ### Example 10 > "but what appeared is what we call distant sales from stores, which is a sales associate, human people, Talking at a distance with customers, being a video, or it could be a chat. And this is why it's not obvious, but for me, it showed us that, how important is, and will be, the human connection in this business." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 18:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK-zhYptqaU&t=1120s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [talking](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/talking) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "talking at" correctly? "talking at" is pronounced `/tælkɪngæt/`. Syllable breakdown: **tal·kin·gat**. ### What does "talking at" mean in context? Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "talking at" in daily English. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/talking-at#webpage", "url": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/talking-at", "name": "How to pronounce \"talking at\" in English | SayItVid", "description": "Learn how to say \"talking at\" correctly. 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