SpanishDict explained

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 Jeremy Cummings and Martha Cummings in 1999.[2] Jeremy Cummings' brother, 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 and References

  1. News: Editor's Note: Curiosity Media takes slow, steady approach . 2014-11-09 . 2014-11-07 . Dan Beyers . . Washington, D.C. . 0190-8286 . 1330888409.
  2. Web site: How Curiosity Media is helping millions of people learn Spanish and English. admanager.google.com.
  3. Web site: SpanishDict. SpanishDict.
  4. Web site: Curiosity Media. www.curiositymedia.com.
  5. Web site: Finally, A Smart Spanish Learning App. David. Zax. December 10, 2013. Fast Company.
  6. O'Neill . Errol M. . Online Translator, Dictionary, and Search Engine Use Among L2 Students . Call-Ej . 2019 . 20 . 1 . 154–177 .
  7. Mihalcea . Rada . Sinha . Ravi . McCarthy . Diana . SemEval-2010 task 2: Cross-lingual lexical substitution . Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation . 15 July 2010 . 9–14 .
  8. Book: Culbertson . Gabriel . Shen . Solace . Andersen . Erik . Jung . Malte . Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing . Have your Cake and Eat it Too: Foreign Language Learning with a Crowdsourced Video Captioning System . 25 February 2017 . 286–296 . 10.1145/2998181.2998268 . 9781450343350 . 4093592 .
  9. https://aclanthology.org/R09-1010.pdf
  10. https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/article/viewFile/3567/3867
  11. 4230435 . 2014 . Gross . M. . Buac . M. . Kaushanskaya . M. . Conceptual scoring of receptive and expressive vocabulary measures in simultaneous and sequential bilingual children . American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology . 23 . 4 . 574–586 . 10.1044/2014_AJSLP-13-0026 . 24811415 .
  12. https://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/bitstream/1009/1671/1/24%20Lopez_2011_CompLingApp2.pdf
  13. IXL Learning Acquires Language Learning Software Developer Curiosity Media. I. X. L.. Learning. www.prnewswire.com.
  14. Web site: Kurtz . Judy . 2014-10-21 . Longoria, Rep. Ros-Lehtinen team up for contest . 2023-04-14 . The Hill . en-US.

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