你一开始 不大和我说话
“you didn't talk much to me at first.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
怪不得
“No wonder...”
你 一开始 不大和我说话
“you didn't talk much to me at first.”
我以为 你就是汉语不好
“I thought you were just bad at Mandarin.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In multilingual or multi-ethnic regions of China, silence or limited speech is frequently attributed to language proficiency barriers before deeper familiarity develops.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
at the beginning; initially
A very common time phrase placed before the predicate or at the sentence head to describe initial impressions or phases.
not very much; seldom
Used before verbs or adjectives to soften a negative statement, meaning 'not often' or 'not particularly'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Honestly, I didn't dare tell you at first.”
“Then I'll deliver the message.”
“Why didn't you just say that to begin with?”
“Before that, I won't say another word.”
“In the beginning,”
“But we ended up talking about others first.”