A must-have tool for parents to help their children! Youdao Children's Dictionary is launched in 2019

According to the "Critical Period Hypothesis" of linguist Eric Lenneberg: children aged 0 to 7 years old acquire the purest language, which will affect their lifelong language creation ability and language habits; 7 to 12 years old is the best time to master vocabulary and syntax. In order to help users make full use of the "golden period" of language learning, NetEase Youdao launched Youdao Children's Dictionary to cultivate the bilingual learning ability and good habits of children aged 6-12.

Introducing authoritative and high-quality copyrighted content

Helping children to look up words in the dictionary is a daily routine for every parent of primary school students. As the industry's first bilingual word search and translation app for children, Youdao Children's Dictionary includes more than 8,000 Chinese characters from the "General Standard Chinese Character List", and cooperates with the "Oxford Primary School Dictionary" to include authoritative translations of more than 4,000 words and common expressions, covering more than 4,400 prescribed words in the "Compulsory Education English Curriculum Standards", covering the entire compulsory content of the primary school stage. Simply enter a search to get a detailed and accurate interpretation, allowing parents to bid farewell to the inefficient era of manually looking up paper dictionaries, and bring children's daily fragmented word search learning into a three-dimensional sensory interaction era.

Youdao Children's Dictionary provides a broad-sense word search service, whether it is Chinese characters, phrases, idioms and proverbs or poems and songs, all can be accurately interpreted. For example, when searching for the ancient poem "Quiet Night Thoughts", Youdao Children's Dictionary will display the original text, translation, appreciation and author profile in full, ensuring rich and diverse learning materials. In the context of English word search, in addition to conventional content such as interpretation of phonetic symbols, Youdao Children's Dictionary also connects and supplements fixed collocations and derivatives. It is worth mentioning that each sentence listed in the Chinese and English word search is marked with the source of the textbook.

English word spelling, the perfect function for learning pronunciation

How to pronounce a word in authentic English is a common problem faced by Chinese parents. Although most parents have received a good education, non-standard pronunciation is still very common among Chinese people. Youdao Children's Dictionary adopts the globally popular natural spelling method "Phonics" and records a syllable-by-syllable natural spelling tutorial for each word, allowing children to learn authentic pronunciation rules and spelling skills simultaneously with school-age children in English-speaking countries, and remember words as easily as the pinyin method.

Chinese Character Stroke Order Tracking Parent Tutoring Assistant

The stroke order of Chinese characters is also a big headache for most parents who forget the characters when they pick up a pen. In order to overcome the difficulty of "writing", Youdao Children's Dictionary has developed a Chinese character stroke order writing app, which teaches children to write stroke by stroke through animation demonstrations and follow-up writing exercises.

Follow the pronunciation of words to encourage children to speak bravely

"Not daring to speak" is the most common dilemma in language learning. In real life, many children are afraid of making mistakes and mispronouncing words, but they suffer from the lack of standard demonstrations. Youdao Children's Dictionary provides a pronunciation follow-up function, which supports users to follow the words and score expressions after the demonstration, encouraging children to actively "listen" and "speak".

It is reported that Youdao Children's Dictionary is more than just a "dictionary" and will launch more age-appropriate knowledge and language learning teaching functions in the future.

Ten years ago, Youdao Dictionary was born because there was no good word-searching tool on the market, and later became a household name on the Internet. Ten years later, the product team of Youdao Dictionary once again created the "Children's Edition" of Youdao Dictionary, allowing children to easily and efficiently search for words and learn.

In terms of product detail design, the children's dictionary continues NetEase's consistent craftsmanship style. Children's users have a more delicate experience, so the product needs to be more detailed. The mascot of Youdao Children's Dictionary is an orange-red squirrel, which symbolizes cleverness, warmth, research, and companionship. This is the image that the design team finally finalized after several rounds of parent and child user surveys. In addition, considering that modern young users are more familiar with voice interaction and more convenient to use, Youdao Children's Dictionary has set up an AI intelligent voice assistant to interact with children users at close range as a "peer".

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.