How to Become a Qualified Bilingual or Trilingual Interpreter/Translator
According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, interpreters and translators are expected to have a higher than average employment growth of about 22% within the 2008-2018 decade. As a trilingual interpreter and translator myself, I've noticed the job growth, not only in the writing and translation departments, but in the overall economy across all industries.
The demand for interpreters and translators is high, but sadly enough there are not enough qualified interpreters/translators to fill that demand. The results are ill-recorded audio or ill-written marketing ads, newsletters, slogans, emails, etc.
If you're considering becoming a bilingual or trilingual interpreter/translator it's very important to understand that being bilingual or trilingual in itself does not equate to being a qualified interpreter or translator.
You may know the basics of English, Spanish, and American Sign Language (fill in your languages), but do you know the inner workings and nuances of the languages?
Consider these two marketing campaigns that failed some years back:
Baby Food to a developing country: Is it baby food or is it baby food?
Chevy Nova to Mexico: Is it Chevy Nova or Chevy NoVa? (Chevy, 'No Go' in Spanish)
To be bilingual or trilingual means having the capability to speak and communicate in two or three languages.
Choosing Career Among Young Adults
Choosing a career is one of the major decisions that a college student should make before they hit graduation. Sometimes the career of an individual is the turning point of his or her career. That is why some of the graduates become unemployed or they cannot allow themselves to stick to one job because they have chosen something that is not for them. This is the same reason, why career counselling is best for students who are about to graduate and face the real world. That is why individuals as young as they are should be able to obtain learning on developing their life skills.
Life Skill for Young Adults
Parents can even train their kids in to understand their social and environment life skills. There are important lessons that a child can get from learning to develop their life skills. For example, a simple household chore can develop their responsibility formation. This can help parents develop their analytical skills and as well as their problem solving skills. The life skills curriculum program for kids is different from adults. In this program, they are taught tips and survival tips on how to weigh in the norms of the society.
Tips in Choosing the Right Path
Get an Advice from a Career Counsellor
Choosing the career option is not an easy task that is why it is better that you seek the attention of a well-known career counsellor. They may not be that popular but they do exist. However, like what researchers said career counsellors cannot choose a career for you. You really have to make the choice all but yourself but they can land you different options. They may want you to enroll into life skills program or they can allow you to have a career interest survey so that they can decide better options for you.
Oral to Written to Telecommunications to Social-Media
One day, while pondering the cultural-effect that the internet has had on the social-importance of books, I suddenly had an insight into what effect book-publishing must have had on the quasi-hereditary oral-tradition of previous times. In the oral-tradition, legends and cultural beliefs were passed down in a manner that easily facilitated new generational interpretation - anyone who's played the "telephone-game" has a good idea of what I mean.
With the widespread publication of book, however, the interpretability of information passed along, while not eradicated, was somewhat diminished - the communication vehicle was preserved, while in the oral-tradition the teller of the story would have told the story in slightly (if not extremely) different ways as his/her life progressed, and to an evolving audience as well.
For a great many years the written-word grew to an exalted position as a more concisely-permanent means of relating ideas - though readers, of course, would come up with interpretations and supplications of their own. Some of these would come to create subsequent written-works reflecting new understanding in the current stage of an evolving informational-paradigm. Others, reading the works of others from times-gone-by, would influence the cultural receptibility of evolving written-works by way of, (you guessed it), the enduring remnants of oral-tradition - renamed "word-of-mouth."