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| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3914 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes  Speaks: French | Message 9 of 23 04 August 2015 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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One of the things I was considering was moving to country X, and working there as an English interpreter, I really wouldn't mind especially if it were in Europe. I don't know if I said, but my goal if I complete the EE degree is to work in aerospace. French is my best language, though it's not at a stable fluency yet, though it is getting there. I'd love to use that language every day if I could in some capacity, though again I'd like to use the others as well, I'm open to anything at the moment.
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| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 10 of 23 05 August 2015 at 1:18am | IP Logged | ||
As long as you realize that you're going to have to take courses in interpreting (it would behove to get a Masters in it) that sounds like a good goal. One of my current goals is to become a translator (from German into English) but some of the steps to get there include getting a masters in translation. If you do want to become an interpreter I highly suggest at least minoring in the language (or perhaps majoring in the language and minoring in EE). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 11 of 23 05 August 2015 at 1:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I also couldn't agree more with what Jtdotto's post. Right now I'm looking at translation programs at
German universities and the interpreting programs are very intense (there actually aren't many BA programs in interpreting in Germany from what I can tell). Both interpreting and translating professionally are, from what I can tell, not things that you can kind of hmm and haw over. They require a lot of study and an incredibly high level of proficiency from both a linguistic standpoint and a theoretical standpoint. That isn't to say that you can't get to that point, but it's not a things that you can quickly make into a career change despite storing up linguistic skills. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3914 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes Speaks: French | Message 12 of 23 05 August 2015 at 3:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I wish I had never asked the question. I'm feeling like once again I've found something I'm good at but is completely useless to me.
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| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 13 of 23 05 August 2015 at 4:05am | IP Logged | ||
You're in school and thus in the position to become good enough to at least do translation. I mean, I understand the sentiment, really I do, but you are at a place in your life (in college) where you can, at the very least, get on the trajectory of becoming a translator. Another thing would be ASL interpreting which is definitely a, "you need to go to school to do this" and also a thing that is in demand in the US (in the case of ASL most interpreters are not hearing children of deaf parents). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3914 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes Speaks: French | Message 14 of 23 05 August 2015 at 4:08am | IP Logged | ||
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To be clear are we talking translation of "tech books" and such? I really do not want to do that.
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| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 15 of 23 05 August 2015 at 5:11am | IP Logged | ||
We're talking about translation of all types. I mean I personally want to do technical documentat but that's because I like doing technical writing (and even that isn't "tech books", it's more end user documentation). But no, when most people say "translation" they're talking about translation of any written text. This includes literary texts, news articles, non fiction stuff, subtitles, advertising, etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 16 of 23 05 August 2015 at 2:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you want to translate novels (which is something I would love to do, something I would go to study if I had the choice now), you usually need a degree in literature, translating something like that. Lots of humanities, lots of classics reading and analysis, some language studies included. The publishers have tons of people to choose from in that case and those with literature-language-translating degree are just seen as better prepared for the job, no matter the fact many of them are really bad and lazy.
If you do not want to do engineering, do not want to do tech books and documentation, if you still can change degree, go for it. If you enjoy engineering at least partially, you have a great future with it and languages before you. If you hate your field and cannot switch: welcome to hell. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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