Linguist Overview

You'll be sought-after by beauty queens as well as hi-profile foreign delegates. If language has been your forte all throughout school and you love to talk nineteen to a dozen, you have a bright future as a translator or an interpreter. Are you up to it?

 

A career in languages is as varied as it is interesting. For example, as a linguist you'll help people bridge the gap between countries and cultures. As the cliché goes, “If you want to understand a person well, then speak to him in his language”. This field holds opportunities such as: 

 

Interpreters: This is what we call mixing business with pleasure. As an interpreter, you will accompany business executives and government officials on their trips. Here, you'll not just be helping two people communicate but you will also represent your firm/country. The job calls for sensitivity to cultural differences. While interpreting as an interpreter, you have to make sure that you retain the meaning of the original sentence. 

 

It's a tough job, as you'll be interpreting simultaneously during conferences, meetings, speeches, etc. The interpreter in a sound proof room listens through headphones to the source speech and almost spontaneously interprets it to the target language into a microphone. This automatically gets transmitted to the earphones of the listeners. 

 

Translators: As translators, you will work with books, scripts and articles to translate them into the desired language. The works might be literary in nature or a simple technical manual. While interpreters work with the spoken word, a translator's work revolves around the written language. 

 

Teacher: This is a broad classification. You could be teaching languages such as Hindi, English or any regional language in schools, colleges or even hold private courses for those who just wish to learn the basics. The same applies to foreign languages.

 

Linguist: You will be an expert in the origin, evolution, development, and contemporary form of various languages. You will research to find out the latest developments in different languages. You will advise companies in certain fields like software companies developing speech recognition software. You will also advise them on phonetics and other features of speech. 

 

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