我小时候老去 有人说过你话很多吗
“I used to go there all the time as a kid. Has anyone ever told you that you talk a lot?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
她是坐办公室 管人事的
“She works in an office, in HR.”
我 小时候 老去 有人 说过 你 话很多 吗
“I used to go there all the time as a kid. Has anyone ever told you that you talk a lot?”
真的有
“Actually, yes.”
“You sure talk non-stop, but I find it mildly amusing.”
In close Chinese social dynamics, bluntly pointing out a harmless trait like talkativeness serves to build rapport and show intimate ease.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
go there frequently
'老' functions adverbially here to mean 'always' or 'frequently' in informal northern spoken Chinese.
very talkative / chatty
A neutral-to-colloquial way to describe someone who talks a great deal.
Marks a yes-no rhetorical question intended to tease rather than seek unknown information.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“When we were young, you brought us to your house.”
“(When you were little,)”
“You can only talk about your childhood”
“You were only 7 or 8 years.”
“Is that something a kid would say? You're even more old-fashioned than your dad...”
“When I was little, I heard Grandma say”