we had talked before vs we had talked about work

Both options are correct, but their meanings differ. 'We had talked before' implies a previous conversation without specifying the topic, while 'We had talked about work' specifies that a conversation was had about work. The choice between the two depends on whether you want to emphasize the fact of talking previously or the topic of the conversation.

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we had talked before

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to refer to a previous conversation without specifying the topic.

This phrase is used to indicate that a conversation had taken place at some point in the past without specifying the details of the conversation.

Examples:

We had talked before, but we never really resolved anything.
I remembered her face from when we had talked before.

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Lastly, and this is something that we had talked about at length before your address, you spoke of your hopes for peace and stability in Korea.
As funny as it sounds, articulating it now and reading about it - actually, if we had talked about it before this controversy, I would have said, "That's kind of true."
Giordino talked before I killed him.
We should have talked before you said no.
We talked before you got up.
We talked before, by accident.
We talked before about diesel traffic.
It's not like you've never talked before.
I thought you guys talked before.
I talked before of constitutionalisation and, personally, I believe in a federal perspective.
I talked before about the use of devices to dramatically change the way we treat disease.
We've talked before about the ideal person to head an inquiry.
Emma, we talked before about how a delusion -
Why talk now if you haven't talked before?
She and I have, like, talked before, you know.
That dead Warig we hung up above the dunes talked before it died.
Listen, you know how we've talked before about redoing your room.
On Thursday... Darius and I talked before he left for home.
We've talked before about HTTPS, what it does, and why you should use it.
If in the majority of petty-bourgeois families talked before fleeing on a local rural dialect, then all came back home Russian-speaking.

Alternatives:

We had spoken before
We had chatted before

we had talked about work

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to specify that a conversation was about work.

This phrase is used when you want to indicate that a previous conversation specifically focused on the topic of work.