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| Hello Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5419 days ago 40 posts - 45 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 57 08 March 2010 at 8:43pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Ambassador for your country in another distant country.
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| mattvdm Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5420 days ago 15 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Ancient Greek, Spanish, Russian | Message 10 of 57 08 March 2010 at 11:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Maybe not the craziest, but I find it amazing to see those teaching humanities subjects in a second-language.
If that's not the ultimate level of skill, what is? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5421 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 57 09 March 2010 at 12:16am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Or you could be a teacher. A good one, not a crappy, typical public school one. Or a translator, interpreter, ambassador, or the coolest, an international super spy? Or write a book like Barry Farber's, or one that's even better (good luck with that :P) Edited by Johntm on 09 March 2010 at 12:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| nescafe Senior Member Japan Joined 5408 days ago 137 posts - 227 votes | Message 12 of 57 09 March 2010 at 12:19am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Exactly. My German teacher at university was that kind of person. He was a reseacher of Japanese literature from Germany, seemd to speak ten languages or so including both of Western and Eastern languages. He lectured in very good, native like Japanese and once teached us how to write "Singapol" in Chinese character 真加坡! In another lecture he showed us some haikus by himself. He presented them in German fitst, and then translated them into Japanese, which were realy impressive and all the students there came awe! He often got confused which language he talked about in class, and often misspell words, saying "parque, park? Is it English?". He talkd about almost every topics related to humanities: Language, History, Literature, Falk study, etc. All he talked to us were very inetersting. I was not interested in Language at all then, my major was mathematics, but this man was realy impressive, almost incredible and I saw him as a miracle. He was very respected by fellow academics and a book about him was published. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5584 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 13 of 57 09 March 2010 at 1:22am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I agree...but why make it worse. I don't a computer doing EVERYTHING for me. Taxes, math, typing, a search engine and a dictionary is good enough for me, the rest I'll do myself. This "let technology do it" generation you and I are in today makes me sick. :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 57 09 March 2010 at 1:33am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Spy...of the type seen in popular action films.
EDIT: In retrospect, perhaps "spy" might be rather boring without Hollywood to lend a hand. Edited by patuco on 10 March 2010 at 12:57am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| laban Triglot Groupie Israel Joined 5821 days ago 87 posts - 96 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English, Italian Studies: Norwegian, German | Message 15 of 57 09 March 2010 at 1:50am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Working for an intelligence agency is the best one yet ^^, but still non of the jobs presented here seem awfully fun, crazy or super lucrative.
Ambassador could be quite nice. It's just too bad it got nothing to do with prior knowledge of any language nor would it give anyone any advantage - it's all politics. keep'em coming though :) Edited by laban on 09 March 2010 at 1:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 16 of 57 09 March 2010 at 2:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
My former Russian teacher once told me that a good friend of his was indeed working as a translator/linguist for an intelligence agency. However, that person found the job very difficult because beyond saying who his employer was, he was not allowed to speak about his work to anyone, including his wife and family, of course. He also said that the work he did was incredibly boring and repetitive. So perhaps that doesn't quite qualify as the greastest job. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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