"The judge wants to speak to the lawyer."

Translation: Domaren vill tala med advokaten.

[RichardB_Lebanon]

Its confusing here to write the english with "to" should be "with"

[g.uh]

... tala till(to) advokaten was marked wrong. But med( with) should be the correct answer. What?

[Arnauti]

There's a bigger difference between tala till and tala med in Swedish than between talk to vs speak with in English. …tala till advokaten would in effect mean make a speech to the lawyer.

[tredjedotter]

so if a lawyer would talk to the jury_? he is not expecting answers, so it is a speech?

[tredjedotter]

so why isnät the sentence using with in engish=?

[Arnauti]

I don't know if it was written like that on purpose, but it could teach you what I wrote – that med and till are much less interchangeable in Swedish here than they are in English.

[podgorsk]

Can you prata till advokaten in any sense?

[deactivated user]

What is the difference between "tala" and e.g. "prata", except for things like "Jag talar svenska"? I basically only hear "prata", when it's used as in the example above.

[Zmrzlina]

The same difference as with talk and speak in English, actually. :)

[Yerrick]

I thought you can say "Jag pratar engelska" in Swedish? Because that's the main difference I can think of between "talk" and "speak" in English: you can't "talk" a language.

[Zmrzlina]

I disagree. You can, colloquially, talk a language, but speak is preferred when referring to languages. The same goes for prata in Swedish; tala is preferred for languages.

[davost]

They mean the same except that tala is more formal sounding. Prata is more common, especially in spoken language. In writing tala is almost as common as prata.