What is the difference between talk through and discuss and talk over ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.

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EchidnaC

8 February

English (US)

@ctjan
"Talk Through" means that you are talking to someone about something that you have a disagreement about or that you do not understand.

"We had some issues to talk through."

"Discuss" means you are talking to someone about a topic.

"We discussed the game we had watched last night."

And "Talk Over" can either mean you speak louder than another person or thing so you can be heard,

"I talked over the noise of the crowd so my family could hear me."

Or it can be used to talk about having a discussion somewhere.

"Me and John talked over breakfast."

ctjan

8 February

Russian

@EchidnaC Does "break down" mean the same as "talk through" in the sense of explaining when a person doesn't understand something?

Could you please explain the difference between "take over" and "discuss" in more detail? It sounds like they're the same for me.

EchidnaC

8 February

English (US)

@ctjan
Yes, "Break down" and "Talk Through" do mean similar things. Usually, "Break down" means to explain something to someone in a very simple way.

"Take over" means something similar "Talk over." In this case, it means "to prevent another person from talking in a conversation because you want to talk."

"Daniel took over the conversation to talk about his new train collection."

ctjan

9 February

Russian

@EchidnaC I'm so sorry. I made a mistake; I wrote "take over" instead of "talk over." I'd like to know the difference between "talk over" and "discuss" in more detail. Are there contexts or situations when people would use "talk over" instead of "discuss" in the sense of discussing something?