Talk or speak?
Talk or speak?
Most of the time you can use either ‘talk’ or ‘speak’ to mean the same thing. You tend to use ‘talk’ for informal conversation:
She likes to talk to her friends on the phone.
And ‘speak’ is generally more formal and used for one-sided communications.
You should speak clearly when giving a lecture.
You always say ‘speak a language’ and never ‘talk a language’.
There are other fixed expressions that only use ‘talk’ or ‘speak’, such as ‘speak your mind’, which means to say what you think or ‘talking to a brick wall’, which means someone won’t listen to what you are saying.
And there are phrasal verbs that have distinct differences such as ‘speak up’, which is to increase the volume of your voice and ‘talk up’
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