speak + -ing

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the action of conveying information or expressing one's thoughts and feelings in spoken language.

話すこと

the activity of delivering speeches or lectures:

講演, 講義; 話術, 話し方

e.g. public speaking.

adjective attributive

used for or engaged in speech:

(ある様態で)話をする

e.g. you have a clear speaking voice.

in combination able to communicate in a specified language:

(ある言語を)話す〈人･地域など〉

e.g. an English-speaking guide.

conveying meaning as though in words:

e.g. she gave him a speaking look.

(of a portrait) so like the subject as to seem to be alive and capable of speech:

何か言いたげな〈顔つき〉; 物を言うような〈肖像画〉, 生きているような.

e.g. a speaking likeness.

1. slightly acquainted.

2. sufficiently friendly to talk to each other:

e.g. she parted from her mother barely on speaking terms.

used to indicate the degree of accuracy intended in a statement or the point of view from which it is made:

e.g. broadly speaking, there are three major models for local-central relations.

used to introduce a statement or question about a topic recently alluded to:

e.g. speaking of cost, can I afford to buy it?