SpanishDict

Screenshot of the website's search capability

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]

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b 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. ^ https://aclanthology.org/R09-1010.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  10. ^ https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/article/viewFile/3567/3867 [bare URL]
  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. ^ https://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/bitstream/1009/1671/1/24%20Lopez_2011_CompLingApp2.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  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.