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What is the difference in nuance between "narrate", "speak", and "talk"?

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Rebecca

Narrating is a bit different from talking or speaking because it involves the description of each action that is being done. Here, the speaker has asked his fiancee to not narrate, as her description of each of her movements was ruining the romantic mood. Ex: I don't like to watch movies with people who narrate (describe) each scene. Ex: I recently saw a funny video of Snoop Dogg narrating an animal documentary.

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