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| Mrs. Dalloway Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 4764 days ago 70 posts - 95 votes  Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, Russian Studies: GermanA2, French, Danish | Message 1 of 7 18 April 2011 at 12:47pm | IP Logged |
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Hi everyone. I've been surfing the web a while, searching for blogs written by languages-appreciators, and came across many interesting ones. But lately, I've felt the need to find a community that would give me the chance to actually speak to them. So here I am.
I'm seventeen years old, Italian, currently living in Russia (exchange year programme, ending soon). I've always been interested in languages, my first love being English. When I was 14, I had to choose a high school specialization, and of course chose to develop my skills in foreign languages. Apart from English and Russian, in which I find myself to be pleasantly fluent (still have to work on Russian, though), I currently study French and German at school, and just started peeking in the Spanish, Japanese and Lithuanian worlds. But I've got a huge problem. Everyone thinks I'm going to get a degree in some language and become a translator or an interpreter. But that's the last thing I want to do. I hate translating. During the translation process, something gets lost. As if you were unrolling an enchanted parchment and most of the magic sparlking powder fell off. (Besides, I'm also hopeless at it.) And nobody could understand my reasons better than you, other foreign languages lovers. I've experienced life in a different culture (Russia) and loved it. I'd like to study and live abroad, in the future. But I don't don't don't want to translate anything. I don't want to be a bridge through languages. I want to live the cultures, the people behind them; often changing my residence, if necessary. But I'm having problems identifying which jobs would give me that opportunity. I don't even know what I want to do, besides. The only sure thing is I hate maths as much as translating. Help me find my way! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5642 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 7 18 April 2011 at 2:47pm | IP Logged |
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There are other jobs which require foreign language skills than working as a translator / interpreter. I also hate translating because I get a headache again and again when I translate for several hours. Instead of this I worked as an office cerk and a call center agent dealing with foreign suppliers and customers speaking Dutch.
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| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4776 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 3 of 7 18 April 2011 at 4:26pm | IP Logged |
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Languages can be a hobby, or a job. They can be whatever you want really. You're pretty young to be worried about all these things, as worrying as things can be! There's so many things you can do, especially as you've already got many worlds you can explore with your languages. Just think carefully, be open minded and see what happens. You've already spent a year in Russia!! Which must have been such an amazing experience.
As a side note, it seems as if once you do one thing you're immediately (and sometimes unfairly) linked to one specific job... Like I used to love sport, and now I'm on the road to being an academic, which is far away from the world of sport. I guess I just want to say: Believe in your beliefs =) (and good luck!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5552 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 7 18 April 2011 at 4:55pm | IP Logged |
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You're too young to be worrying about what job you want to do! Just enjoy your languages
and passions, and something will fruit from them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tbone Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4786 days ago 92 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 5 of 7 18 April 2011 at 5:37pm | IP Logged |
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I'd like to study and live abroad, in the future. ... I want to live the cultures, the people behind them; often
changing my residence, if necessary. But I'm having problems identifying which jobs would give me that opportunity. You've answered your own question. Move somewhere and then every real job will fulfill your requirements. Work in a store, an office, a restaurant, write for a paper, or whatever. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6460 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 6 of 7 22 April 2011 at 1:00am | IP Logged |
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I used to work as an IT consultant and we had many international projects in Germany, France, Mexico and the United States, so I got to use my language skills but never had to translate anything.
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| vientito Senior Member Canada Joined 6133 days ago 212 posts - 281 votes | Message 7 of 7 17 July 2011 at 2:22pm | IP Logged |
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Believe me, there are some 30 somethings who still have not got a clue of what they
should do with their careers. Quit thinking about that far down the road. Enjoy what you do and take it a day at a time. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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