那冬 胡小姐 我呢 就直说了
“Well, in winter... Ms. Wu, let me be straightforward.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“This window faces... It's bad fengshui, but I'm tough.”
那冬 胡小姐 我呢 就 直说了
“Well, in winter... Ms. Wu, let me be straightforward.”
我刚才挑这些毛病啊 就是怕你不租给我
“All those issues I just pointed out... were just to make sure you don't refuse to rent it to me.”
“Let us cut the bargaining games; I really want to rent this place.”
Chinese commercial negotiations often involve initial fault-finding as a tactic; explicitly dropping pretense via frank admission creates sudden rapport.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to speak frankly; to put it bluntly
A discourse marker used right before dropping diplomatic speech to deliver an unfiltered truth.
Pauses on the topic to draw attention to the speaker's own perspective before delivering the main point.
Signals an imminent shift into a state of frank openness.
