Multilinguals get the jobs

Source: Smartling
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The language services market is a hot and fast-growing market. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the job market for translation and interpreting jobs has been steadily climbing, outpacing most other areas for job seekers by growing “much faster than average.” This comes as no surprise — after all, demand for website translation, mobile app translation, and other types of digital content translation has been taking off in recent years, fueling the growth of this market.

Translators and interpreters tend to specialize in just one language pair, making deep levels of language proficiency important for this work. But what about all of the other jobs in the field of translation, such as project managers, engineers, and other types of work? For these positions, sometimes having knowledge of many different languages, even if not “native fluency” in each, can be a huge advantage. More.

See: Smartling

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Multilinguals get the jobs
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From the outside looking in? Oct 19, 2013

Surprisingly, only one idea here seemed to hold water, and even then, I found the concept of "hyperpolyglots" as explained by the reporting writers rather simplistic. It's like taking a head count of languages and using a faulty denominator. Trawling the web, I found a more reasonable consideration about Romance languages not really counting because they were all closely related. Which leads me to the question, is there at all a solid basis for studying the human language apparatus this way? I'm... See more
Surprisingly, only one idea here seemed to hold water, and even then, I found the concept of "hyperpolyglots" as explained by the reporting writers rather simplistic. It's like taking a head count of languages and using a faulty denominator. Trawling the web, I found a more reasonable consideration about Romance languages not really counting because they were all closely related. Which leads me to the question, is there at all a solid basis for studying the human language apparatus this way? I'm pretty sure Grimm would've had second thoughts... but don't mind me, I'm just a polly.icon_biggrin.gifCollapse


 

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