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Generally, lots of Korean students have anxiety about English. After thinking about it we guessed the reasons. One of them is they study English just to get good marks. When they try to study English they choose hard ways. Of course, learning language is difficult, so many learners get tired easily. For these people many English educators have tried to find easy ways to teach English, and they have found methods. Pop songs and movies are good means to have fun and advance linguistic ability at the same time. We would like to suggest cartoons among the various ways to have fun learning English. Suppose you have about 20 free minutes, what will you do? You could study something for 20 minutes, or you could waste the precious time. When you are in a similar situation like this, visit Baby Blues at www.babyblues.com. We would like to tell you English is not a hard thing to get close to. We believe it will help you to have fun with English.
 

The Six Parts

Baby Blues is a comic strip. It was started in 1988 by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott. This cartoon's story is about parents who raise two young children. While you are reading this cartoon, you will learn vivid English and can understand American thoughts unconsciously. This Web site has strips from 1996 to 1999. Even if you don't know the words, you can guess the contents by pictures that make it easy to understand. It will help you to recognize which word is proper in the given situation. Besides, if you have problems because you use Konglish it can help. You won't feel bored at all while you are surfing this site.

In this part, you will see a world map. It shows the countries where this cartoon is published. For example, when you click on Asia, it shows Hong Kong and Korea. This Web site is not the only way to enjoy Baby Blues. Baby Blues is serializied in The Korea Herald.

This is the most interesting part of this Web site. First, choose any year from 1996 to 1999, and then click on the name of a month. A week's worth of cartoons is downloaded by one click. These cartoons are a series of episodes, so you don't need to worry about the stream being interrupted. The cartoons use a conversational style rather than a literary style. Nowadays, conversation has become more important than any other aspect of learning English such as; composition, reading, grammar and so on. You can raise your sense of conversation by reading these cartoons, and you can also enjoy them.

This section gives much information that is related to Baby Blues. The biographies of the creators of Baby Blues, Jerry and Rick, are given briefly, and you can learn to recognize the characters--Darryl, Wanda, Zoe and Hamish--before you read the cartoons. You can also find out about awards they got that guarantee this cartoon's excellence and popularity.

This part awaits your participation. Baby Blues' story is about a married couple who are raising two babies, so this section is for people who have babies. If you have a baby, you can send your baby's pictures and enter the Baby Blues contest. When your picture is selected for publishing on the Web site and your story gives a hint for writing their books, you will get an illustration of Baby Blues from the creators.

Baby Blues has published 13 volumes. You can buy books and other goods here easily. Of course there is no need to buy anything. You can just enjoy window shopping. Although visiting this part is optional, it could be amusing. There are many comic books. Generally, Peanuts and Garfield are well-known to the public, but in our opinion Baby Blues is better. If you want to buy comic books, we would like to recommend it to you, but this is just our case.

If you click on this part, you can read cute babies' stories. The subtitle is "Stories from the Mouths of Babes." Readers have sent their experiences about raising their babies. If you have simple curiosity about Baby Blues, visit this part. There is no important content. It just shows information that is related to Baby Blues' processing.
 

Did You Enjoy This Web Site?

This hompage's scale is not big, but we think it's better than others that sometimes have useless sections. Although it has many pictures, the speed of downloading is fine. Except for the Archive, other parts' contents are rather poor to study English, but cute pictures and a clear structure make it easy to access. Perhaps, in using many other Web sites we contact two big inconveniences. One is the users must choose proper information in the wide ocean of information. The other is the users have to enter their personal information to get more detailed materials. Baby Blues does not have the latter's inconvenience. In choosing this Web site, we considered intimacy with English more than knowledge about it. You will have a great interest of in only the four squares of this cartoon. Cheerful characters make you forget the language barrier. Just as in the pictures at the bottom of this page of Zoe, who is one of characters, growing up, we believe your English ability will develop steadily by using this Web site.

 

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