The phrase "afraid to speak with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a feeling of fear or anxiety about communicating with someone.
Example: "She was afraid to speak with her boss about the project, fearing negative feedback."
Alternatives: "nervous to talk to" or "apprehensive about conversing with".
Some associates are afraid to speak with reporters.
Employees once afraid to speak with reporters eagerly sought them out.
When you are feared, understand, constantly people will be afraid to speak with you and open up to you, and in some cases it's not bad, but in others it is not that good, love.
I have never been afraid to speak with the courage of my convictions, which is why, after the Church of England voted to allow women priests, I converted to Catholicism.
Immigrant advocates and Federal Bureau of Investigation investigators said they had found that some potential witnesses in the Washington area had been afraid to speak with the police, particularly after two illegal immigrants in the Richmond, Va., area were mistaken for suspects this week and turned over to the I.N.S. for possible deportation.
I don't want to hire someone who is afraid to speak with their own voice.
Music editor John Myers stated that the album is musically some of Madonna's best work and offers intelligent insight into the taboos people have been taught to be afraid to speak of, combined with equally clever musical arrangements.
Also, do not be afraid to speak up when talking with your faculty advisors about your interests.
Now more than ever, it feels like the right thing to do should be clear, but now more than ever, I'm afraid to speak up and engage with the disability community.
"I realized there is so much energy here: Why am I so afraid to speak these truths?" Compared with her 2005 breakout, I Am a Bird Now, and the albums that followed it records cherished for their oblique meditations on love and death, shadowed by the calamity of the 90s AIDS crisis Hopelessness is shockingly, almost ecstatically literal.
Not for me the minimalist style so fashionable in hotels; I wanted overstatement, opulence that wasn't afraid to speak its name, public rooms with important chandeliers and sink-into-me club chairs.
