MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars》 S1·E8 (07:24) HSK 6
rén jiā dōu zài wǒ men jiā gōng zuò le

人家都在我们家工作了

“He's already working here.”

《Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars》 S1·E8
TIMECODE: 07:24 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN bú huì ba

不会吧

“No way.”

rén jiā dōu zài wǒ men jiā gōng zuò le CURRENT FOCUS

人家 都 在 我们家 工作 了

“He's already working here.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ men hái méi zhèng shì jiāo wǎng ma

“You're still not together?”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Family & Home
Function: EXPRESSING INCREDULITY
Tone: INQUISITIVE AND TEASING
Emotion: ASTONISHMENT
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“They are practically part of our daily life already, so what are you waiting for?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Integration before Dating

In Chinese family contexts, bringing someone into the domestic sphere or family business typically signals high relational intimacy and intentionality toward marriage.

INTENT TAGS: #nudging #probing #teasing #questioning
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
人家 SPOKEN CHUNK

the other person / they / him / her

A colloquial third-person reference often used to add an affective, sympathetic, or mildly emphasizing tone when talking about someone.

都……了 SPOKEN CHUNK

already...

A framing construction emphasizing that a threshold or significant degree has already been reached.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Functions as a sentence-final particle indicating a newly completed change of state or emphasizing an established fact.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 4 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars》 S1·E8 (07:24) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus