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| Siberiano Tetraglot Senior Member Russian Federation one-giant-leap.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6493 days ago 465 posts - 696 votes  Speaks: Russian*, English, ItalianC1, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Serbian | Message 1 of 6 16 December 2012 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have to admit, my day job does not inspire me that much anymore. But when I write a letter in Italian, Spanish or Portuguese, I can do it all the night till the dawn. I have other topics I like and can write a structured article, I was published in a popular journal a few times since I was 17 (didn't pursue this actively until recently). I don't mind being an interpreter.
Has anyone changed their occupation, got a contract or done something similar? Forget your modesty for a while, tell me what you did, please. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 6 16 December 2012 at 8:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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The three Romance languages are VERY important on the Internet. They helped me get my job at Kaspersky Lab :)
As a programmer with a knowledge of these three langs you should have many options. Good luck! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Siberiano Tetraglot Senior Member Russian Federation one-giant-leap.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6493 days ago 465 posts - 696 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, ItalianC1, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Serbian | Message 3 of 6 16 December 2012 at 8:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is really interesting. Could you PM me the details, please?
When I listed those languages for domestic IT companies, they'd ask me if there were lands in the world where folks speak other than English, and if there were dragons. I really was told "you might decide this is boring and go away". (Just today I saw this funny article on a similar issue.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 4 of 6 17 December 2012 at 12:06am | IP Logged | ||
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There isn't much to tell... These languages are/were listed in their job offer for content analysis (adblocking, parental control etc) and they also turned out useful for spam analysis which is where I ended up.
You may want to point out that whenever one looks at the worldwide TT on Twitter, there's always at least a couple of topics in these languages. Although it's hard to prove the usefulness to those that don't see it...but many do! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4432 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 5 of 6 17 December 2012 at 12:23am | IP Logged | ||
That article is bang on. I remember when I was still doing math competitions in high school and studying math in my free time I always wished I could be like Pascal or Erdős! Nowadays I wish I could be like Richard Francis Burton or Timothy Doner. EDIT: I should add that I also worked at as a programmer about 2 and a half years ago now and I did get bored fast, but to each his own. There were one bilingual and one trilingual in my department, but one was born in India and another was a Chinese intern fortunate enough to have worked for some time in Germany. Edited by mahasiswa on 17 December 2012 at 12:26am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 6 of 6 17 December 2012 at 1:00am | IP Logged | ||
You might want to honestly ask yourself whether you'd like to just "use" the languages in your job (speaking with clients and coworkers, etc. which could be any profession) or have languages be the primary focus of the job, such as in translating or interpreting. There's a big difference between the two. I noticed you also have a thread open about teaching languages, so I'm assuming you're considering that as an option too. You seem to realize that teaching involves a lot outside the realm of languages, so there's that to consider, too. R. == 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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