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I've never studied English formally, nor am I professionally qualified to teach it, but I am a native speaker, so I'll give it my best shot. "To talk" is just general speaking. It means you're having a conversation and we really don't know/care about any results from the talking. Here the focus is on the action itself. "To tell" can mean you told someone a piece of information, one sentence, even just one word, but the focus is on a result. Something was told. Does that make any sense? Talking means just some guys were speaking to each other, whereas telling means you are giving out some piece of information. If this helps, it is a very similar difference in German between sagen and reden, in Czech between rikat and mluvit (I think, my Czech is really rusty). Hope this helps

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