Software:SpanishDict
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]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dan Beyers (2014-11-09). "Editor's Note: Curiosity Media takes slow, steady approach". The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.). ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/editors-note-curiosity-media-takes-slow-steady-approach/2014/11/06/8c611cba-645f-11e4-9fdc-d43b053ecb4d_story.html.[please check these dates]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "How Curiosity Media is helping millions of people learn Spanish and English". https://admanager.google.com/home/resources/curiosity-media-helping-millions-learn-spanish-and-english/.
- ↑ "SpanishDict". https://www.spanishdict.com/.
- ↑ "Curiosity Media". https://www.curiositymedia.com/.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Zax, David (December 10, 2013). "Finally, A Smart Spanish Learning App". https://www.fastcompany.com/3023062/finally-a-smart-spanish-learning-app.
- ↑ O'Neill, Errol M. (2019). "Online Translator, Dictionary, and Search Engine Use Among L2 Students". Call-Ej 20 (1): 154–177. http://callej.org/journal/20-1/O'Neill2019.pdf.
- ↑ Mihalcea, Rada; Sinha, Ravi; McCarthy, Diana (15 July 2010). "SemEval-2010 task 2: Cross-lingual lexical substitution". Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. pp. 9–14. https://aclanthology.org/S10-1002.pdf.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ https://aclanthology.org/R09-1010.pdf
- ↑ https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/article/viewFile/3567/3867
- ↑ 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. PMID 24811415.
- ↑ https://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/bitstream/1009/1671/1/24%20Lopez_2011_CompLingApp2.pdf
- ↑ Learning, I. X. L.. "IXL Learning Acquires Language Learning Software Developer Curiosity Media". https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ixl-learning-acquires-language-learning-software-developer-curiosity-media-301565900.html.
- ↑ Kurtz, Judy (2014-10-21). "Longoria, Rep. Ros-Lehtinen team up for contest" (in en-US). https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/221414-longoria-rep-ros-lehtinen-team-up-for-contest/.
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