- 好说话 hǎoshuōhuà good-naturedDescribes someone who is easygoing and open to persuasion; easy to talk to or negotiate with
- 说话者 shuōhuàzhě speakerperson who is speaking; speaker; addresser
- 难说话 nánshuōhuà difficult to deal withdescribes a person who is prickly, stubborn, or hard to communicate with; not easy to get along with
- 说话不当话 shuōhuàbùdànghuà to break a promiseto fail to keep to one's word; to go back on what one said
- 说话不算话 shuōhuàbùsuànhuà to go back on one's wordto fail to keep one's promise or be untrustworthy in speech
- 说话人 shuōhuàrén speakera person who is speaking or who makes a speech; the narrator in a text
- 说话算数 shuōhuàsuànshù to keep one's wordto keep one's promise; to mean what one says
- 说话算话 shuōhuàsuànhuà to be true to one's wordto do as promised; to mean what one says; to honor one's word
- 站着说话不腰疼 zhànzheshuōhuàbùyāoténg easier said than doneit's easy to talk when one is not the one doing the work; to give hypocritical or unhelpful advice from a position of ease without understanding the actual difficulty
- 说话要算数 shuōhuàyàosuànshù promises must be keptone must be as good as one's word; to mean what one says
- 好说话儿 hǎoshuōhuàr easygoinggood-natured and easy to talk to or persuade
