說話

to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word

to persuade

to speak / to say / to explain / to scold / to tell off / a theory (typically the last character in a compound, as in 日心說|日心说 heliocentric theory)

to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine

dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

to do as promised / to be as good as one's word / to honor one's word / to mean what one says

it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter (idiom) / to be an armchair expert / to blabber on

promises must be kept

to fail to keep to one's word / to break a promise

to keep one's promise / to mean what one says