The phrase "and difficult to talk" is not correct in written English as it lacks a subject and context.
It can be used in a sentence where you are describing a situation or a person that makes communication challenging.
Example: "The topic was sensitive and difficult to talk about without causing offense."
Alternatives: "and hard to discuss" or "and challenging to communicate".
His daughter was nearly twelve, and difficult to talk to.
She's eleven, and "difficult to talk to". She's most comfortable communicating through posts on Instagram.
For many of them, it remains as painful, unsettled and difficult to talk about as it is for us.
While I realize these topics can be very personal and difficult to talk about, that does not mean we can ignore them.
Culture has always been devilishly hard to understand and difficult to talk about in practical ways.
Reclusive and difficult to talk to, he occasionally lapsed into silences that lasted for days.
Everyone pretends to be casually cool and sexually sophisticated, but at the same time, for many people sex is still dangerously intimate and revealing, sometimes even a minefield of shame, and always fraught with the rawest of emotions and desires, difficult to talk about and to negotiate.
High school classmates considered Roethlisberger cocky, Acheson said, adding that he tried too hard and was difficult to talk to because he was so focused on succeeding athletically.
Ms Clwyd admitted that the whole experience of her husband's time in hospital gives her nightmares and she broke down in tears as she said: "I really find it difficult to sleep and very difficult to talk about".
Sako is quick to point out that even in the world of wine, terroir resists definition and is difficult to talk about.
There is also some anecdotal evidence that insurers, like other for-profits, are making it more and more difficult to talk to live people on the phone, putting people with questions or complaints through long waits, navigating through telephone trees in order to get the information they need and discover what is covered under their plan.
