laban Triglot Groupie Israel Joined 5821 days ago 87 posts - 96 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English, Italian Studies: Norwegian, German
| Message 1 of 57 08 March 2010 at 5:09pm | IP Logged |
What are the worlds best jobs for polyglots and language-wiz people?
I hope it'll be interesting :)
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6469 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 2 of 57 08 March 2010 at 5:24pm | IP Logged |
Creating a machine-translation system.
Interpreting at the UN or EU.
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datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5584 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French
| Message 3 of 57 08 March 2010 at 5:29pm | IP Logged |
Sprachprofi wrote:
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I don't care how good I get at languages... That's one thing I'll never create. :D
It will make people lazy!
The second one I'll go for though !! :D
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Sayumi Groupie Japan Joined 5417 days ago 51 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Japanese
| Message 4 of 57 08 March 2010 at 5:49pm | IP Logged |
datsunking1 wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
Creating a machine-translation system. |
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I don't care how good I get at languages... That's one thing I'll never create. :D
It will make people lazy!
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Second that!
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6438 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 5 of 57 08 March 2010 at 6:19pm | IP Logged |
Sayumi wrote:
datsunking1 wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
Creating a machine-translation system. |
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I don't care how good I get at languages... That's one thing I'll never create. :D
It will make people lazy!
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It can. On the other hand, even the world's most dedicated polyglots can't read the vast majority of the world's languages.
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 6 of 57 08 March 2010 at 6:51pm | IP Logged |
Let me add the obvious ones : translator or teacher.
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nescafe Senior Member Japan Joined 5408 days ago 137 posts - 227 votes
| Message 7 of 57 08 March 2010 at 8:10pm | IP Logged |
CIA, or US military agent.
A polyglot goes traveling around the world and authors books, it seems nice.
Edited by nescafe on 08 March 2010 at 8:12pm
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The Blaz Senior Member Canada theblazblog.blogspotRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5599 days ago 120 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Swahili, French, Sign Language, Esperanto
| Message 8 of 57 08 March 2010 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
Participatory community development worker
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