Hello, everyone, welcome to my new course “Chinese humorous stories season 3: make your Chinese leap amidst laughter”! Learning humorous stories is an excellent way of learning daily language: the vocabularies in humorous story are among the most frequently used, colloquial words that appear at highest frequency in daily communication. The syntax in humorous stories utilizes the most commonly used grammar in Chinese language. Despite its accessibility and commonality, the entertaining, hilarious nature of humorous language makes the language impressive, skillful， (even comically artistic) and highly memorable, thus makes language learning process entertaining, easy and fast. This course chooses 10 hilarious humorous stories that covers a diverse realm of topics, daily situations, and therefore vocabulary range: family, love, marriage, school, law, army, sports, health and medicine, profession, archeology, travel, competition and contest, etc. You will find your daily spoken and written language progresses speedily after learning the course, soon being able to use the most common words and syntax to communicate in Chinese about comprehensive realms of daily life. This season is different from season 1 humorous story in that it emphasize spoken Chinese, so there is no written text.
   Each story is taught in three talking-head video lectures: the first lecture, I lead you to understand phrase by phrase the meaning of each sentence via medium English, also I will lead you to speak after me. I advise you to re-play it 2-3 times, until you can understand the story perfectly. The second lecture is my acting video, I will narrate the story to you, so that you can review your listening comprehension. The third lecture is English version of the story, with pause between sentences, so you can practice translating them into Chinese according to your memory of the Chinese text.
   You will find your daily, conversational Chinese enhance greatly with this course, your speech fluenct and accurate on a lot of daily topics.