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Self-learnt and made a career too ?
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neo
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Message 9 of 14

06 January 2007 at 9:05pm | IP Logged

my question (and other doubts) all related to making a successful career out of foreign languages not "learning languages"...

all the famous institutes such as Goethe institute (for German) or The French Association (aka alliance francaise, for french) DO allow anyone to write and clear their recognised exams as an EXTERNAL candidate...that is, one who did not took the training by the institute, so this solves the lack of certificates problem, if any.

There are people who begin with a university degree and then embark on a career with languages, and then there are people who, out of sheer motivation, learn by themselves using programs that we all are aware of, top the learning by writing certification exams by above institutes and embark on a career out of languages...

So is there anyone amongst us here, or anyone personally known to anyone of us, who has taken either of these two career paths ?

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neo

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japkorengchi
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Message 10 of 14

07 January 2007 at 2:56am | IP Logged

Time to sell my language haha. If you speak good Mandarin, you can work for the FPI or other information agents of the United States; government. The Americans will pay you very handsomely as Chinese is being viewed by the them as one "strategic language".
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Qin Shi Huang
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Message 11 of 14

07 January 2007 at 3:11am | IP Logged

Qbe wrote:

Khatzumoto over at alljapaneseallthetime.com says that he taught himself Japanese over the course of 18 months using self-immersion and then found an IT job in Japan.

He's my hero. I want to grow up to be like him someday.

Wow. Just wow.

That blog gave me a rush of confidence like you wouldn't believe. Thanks for that, I've got it bookmarked from now on.
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magister
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Message 12 of 14

09 January 2007 at 5:02pm | IP Logged

neo wrote:

I would like to know if anyone here has accomplished the task of learning one or several languages by self and has made a succesful career out of it also.

I'm completely self-taught in Latin, and I've been teaching it full-time in a private, college-prep school for nearly 5 years now.

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solidsnake
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Message 13 of 14

10 January 2007 at 12:52am | IP Logged

Qin Shi Huang wrote:

Qbe wrote:

Khatzumoto over at /www.alljapaneseallthetime.com">alljapaneseallthetime.com says
that he taught himself Japanese over the course of 18 months using self-
immersion and then found an IT job in Japan.

He's my hero. I want to grow up to be like him someday.

Wow. Just wow.

That blog gave me a rush of confidence like you wouldn't believe. Thanks
for that, I've got it bookmarked from now on.

I emailed him and we had a chat comparing our methods, overall I think
the guy is exactly right on when it comes to streamlined L2 acquisition. I
threw a shoutout to the forum, hopefully he'll come over sometime and
share.

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iouabook
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Message 14 of 14

30 July 2011 at 11:11pm | IP Logged

Thank you for such an amazing link, Qbe.
:)

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