Today’s question – do we “speak with” someone or “speak to” someone?
If you’re having a conversation, there’s no difference; you can use either one:
- “I spoke to the manager” or “I spoke with the manager.”
- Or we could use “talk”: Let’s talk to the teacher = Let’s talk with the teacher.
The only special situation is when you are giving a speech to an audience. In that case, we can only use “speak to”:
- “I’ll be speaking to a group of college students about financial planning.”
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