By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 27th August:- U- Dictionary, a famous global
English Learning application, today announced a strategic partnership with
Oxford University Press, the largest university press in the world, in an
effort to offer Indian Users Free Globally Authoritative Dictionary. According
to the agreement, Oxford University Press will grant a license to use
11-language versions of its Dictionary for U-Dictionary, enabling U-Dictionary
to offer all users free services to learn English and look up words from
copyrighted Oxford dictionaries.
According to the announcement,
U-Dictionary had reached 55 million global installs in total by this August and
surpassed Google Translate as early as in 2016, making it the highest rated
educational app in India. For the agreement with Oxford University Press, out
of the 11 language versions licensed by the Oxford University Press, 7 language
versions (including Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali)，which adds over 30,0000 authoritative
vocabularies to 2.45 million exclusively for Indian users, will be offered to
Indian users for free, providing more than 470 million Indian netizens with an
opportunity to learn English as effectively as native speakers and to
communicate in the language more conveniently.
As per our internal research, India
has approximately 200 million English speaking populations. There’s a huge
ground that needs to be covered in terms of learning English Language in India.
With the advent of the Internet era and the popularization of 4G networks in
India, this strategic partnership will help U-Dictionary and Oxford English
Dictionary to help educate the existing and potential users through
U-Dictionary app.
Casper Grathwohl, the President of
Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, said that through this partnership,
Oxford dictionary content will help support the 55 million users of
U-Dictionary globally. We're university press are looking forward to a lasting
partnership with U-Dictionary. A partnership that will impact hundreds of millions
of users worldwide.
The alliance between OED and
U-Dictionary will not only bring abundant free learning resources to Indian
users, it will also lift the transparency, compliance and popularization of the
entire learning app market in the country.
It is noted that U-Dictionary is
abundant of authoritative dictionaries such as Collins Advanced Dictionary,
Oxford English Dictionary and WordNet Dictionary, with a total of 8.25 million
entries. In India, U-Dictionary offers over 2.45 million entries exclusively to
users, covering 93.78% of Indian language population, guaranteeing them to
learn and communicate with English by authoritative and comprehensive
vocabularies.
Liu Renlei, head of the Global Market
Department of U-Dictionary, said that U-dictionary is a language learning
application dedicated to providing users with fair and equitable opportunities
to learn English and help them better improve themselves. U-Dictionary solves
users' translation problems and even exchanges between different states. Our
partnership with OED will enable us to offer the user license to Indian users
for free, help them to eradicate language barriers and fulfill their visions
the soonest possible.
According
to the announcement, U-Dictionary had reached 55 million global installs
in total by this August and surpassed Google Translate as early as in 2016,
making it the highest rated educational app in India. For the agreement with
Oxford University Press, out of the 11 language versions licensed by the Oxford
University Press, 7 language
versions (including Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali)，which
adds over 30,0000 authoritative vocabularies to 2.45 million exclusively
for Indian users, will be offered to Indian users for free, providing more than
470 million Indian netizens with an opportunity to learn English as effectively
as native speakers and to communicate in the language more conveniently.
