SpanishDict

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SpanishDict
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An example of SpanishDict's dictionary feature in April 2023
Available inEnglish Spanish
Founded1999;26 years ago (1999)
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerChris Cummings
Founder(s)
  • Chris Cummings
  • Jeremy Cummings
Industry Online education
Services Spanish and English conjugation, translation, and learning.
RegistrationOptional [a]
Current statusOnline
Native client(s) on Android, iOS, iPadOS

SpanishDict is a Spanish-American English reference, learning website, [1] and mobile application. [2] The website and mobile application feature a Spanish-American English dictionary and translator, verb conjugation tables, pronunciation videos, and language lessons. [3] SpanishDict is managed by Curiosity Media. [4]

SpanishDict was founded by Chris Cummings and Jeremy Cummings in 1999. [2] Chris Cummings, took over as CEO in 2007 while he was studying for degrees Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration at Harvard University. [5]

According to Fast Company, SpanishDict was being accessed by over 9 million users per month in 2013. [5] In 2014, the Washington Post reported that SpanishDict reached over 12 million users per month. [1] During the COVID-19 pandemic, SpanishDict and its accompanying product for English learners, inglés.com, reached over 100 million people annually. [2]

SpanishDict is often cited as a resource in academic journal articles in the fields of language acquisition [6] [7] [8] and linguistics. [9] [10] [11] [12]

In 2022, Curiosity Media was acquired by IXL Learning. [13]

SpanishDict was the host of a writing competition #LoveSpanish, in which the participants wrote about why they love the language in time with the Hispanic Heritage Month. The results were announced in 2014. [14]

Notes

  1. ↑ One can use SpanishDict's dictionary/word translation features without an account, but registration is required for its language learning feature.

References

  1. 1 2 Dan Beyers (2014-11-09) [2014-11-07]. "Editor's Note: Curiosity Media takes slow, steady approach". The Washington Post . Washington, D.C. ISSN   0190-8286. OCLC   1330888409.[ please check these dates ]
  2. 1 2 3 "How Curiosity Media is helping millions of people learn Spanish and English". admanager.google.com.
  3. ↑ "SpanishDict". SpanishDict.
  4. ↑ "Curiosity Media". www.curiositymedia.com.
  5. 1 2 Zax, David (December 10, 2013). "Finally, A Smart Spanish Learning App". Fast Company.
  6. ↑ O'Neill, Errol M. (2019). "Online Translator, Dictionary, and Search Engine Use Among L2 Students" (PDF). Call-Ej. 20 (1): 154–177.
  7. ↑ Mihalcea, Rada; Sinha, Ravi; McCarthy, Diana (15 July 2010). SemEval-2010 task 2: Cross-lingual lexical substitution (PDF). Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. pp. 9–14.
  8. ↑ Culbertson, Gabriel; Shen, Solace; Andersen, Erik; Jung, Malte (25 February 2017). "Have your Cake and Eat it Too: Foreign Language Learning with a Crowdsourced Video Captioning System". Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. pp. 286–296. doi:10.1145/2998181.2998268. ISBN   9781450343350. S2CID   4093592.
  9. ↑ Julian Brooke; Milan Tofiloski; Maite Taboada. "Cross-Linguistic Sentiment Analysis: From English to Spanish" (PDF). aclanthology.org.
  10. ↑ Walsh, Andrew. "Learning Spanish Today - A Research Guide". journals.ala.org.
  11. ↑ Gross, M.; Buac, M.; Kaushanskaya, M. (2014). "Conceptual scoring of receptive and expressive vocabulary measures in simultaneous and sequential bilingual children". American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 23 (4): 574–586. doi:10.1044/2014_AJSLP-13-0026. PMC   4230435 . PMID   24811415.
  12. ↑ Hernández, Laritza; López-Lopez, A.; Medina, José e. "Classification of Attitude Words for Opinion Mining" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-10-27.
  13. ↑ Learning, I. X. L. "IXL Learning Acquires Language Learning Software Developer Curiosity Media". www.prnewswire.com (Press release).
  14. ↑ Kurtz, Judy (2014-10-21). "Longoria, Rep. Ros-Lehtinen team up for contest". The Hill. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
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