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| justberta Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5395 days ago 140 posts - 170 votes  Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Indonesian, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 49 of 57 20 June 2010 at 8:55pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Getting payed to travel and learn languages. Which I am already doing.
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| Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5418 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French | Message 50 of 57 20 June 2010 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
How? Tell me now! :0 :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| iamrobertyee Bilingual Triglot Groupie Philippines Joined 5104 days ago 48 posts - 54 votes Speaks: Tagalog*, Cebuano*, EnglishC2 Studies: Mandarin | Message 51 of 57 26 June 2010 at 11:13am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I also would want to know..:))
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| GauchoBoaCepa Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5229 days ago 172 posts - 199 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish | Message 52 of 57 26 June 2010 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Just working in the tourism area, mostly in hotels or hostels...personally I prefer the second ones because I'd practice more and more my target languages with backpackers from many parts of the world.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5144 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 53 of 57 27 June 2010 at 12:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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All my jobs have demanded language skills, but none of them have been particularly glamorous. When I was a student, I worked as a guide. I loved the job, because even if the pay was moderate, you learned so much by interacting with native speakers several hours every day, and at the end of each tour you get a round of applause, and money directly in your hand as a token of their appreciation.
My next job was as a language teacher, which I also loved, as I had a call for teaching, being third generation teacher. Being able to pass on some of your love for languages to young kids was awsome, and to do things like - playing Trivial Pursuit in class - bringing in a drop dead gorgeous Hungarian friend of mine who was fluent in English to a class where 27 of 30 students where girls, so they could practise their English - bringing a few of my students on a field trip to Spain, where I brought them to stay with my Spanish family - invite the pupils home and make tortilla de patatas together while they learned the relevant vocabulary in Spanish felt great. I now work as head of the International section of a large company, which is not as personally satisfying as my previous jobs, but which gives me the opportunity to speak and write in English daily, and which lets me speak my other languages at regular intervals. It also provides me with the opportunity to go several times every year to Brussels and Paris, and has lead me to England, Poland, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Finland, Ireland and will hopefully this autumn bring me to Romania. They have also payed for tutoring in German, French and Russian, a two weeks German course in Munich, a three months' stay in Brussels at the EU-commission and I am to go on a two weeks' Russian course to Ukraine in August. All in all, not bad perks :) - 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6039 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 54 of 57 27 June 2010 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
To even be considered for Green Beret training one needs to be a male, US citizen between 20 and 30. Is there an equivalent for " old guys" ( over 40 ) or women?? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5137 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 55 of 57 28 June 2010 at 12:58am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6039 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 56 of 57 28 June 2010 at 1:52am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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