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| Learn
a language and earn a fortune with translation
as your career |
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By
Sanjay Vyas |
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| An addition of foreign language
skills in your resume can take you places.
You might have studied French, German,
Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean or
any of the foreign languages in your school.
But not many knew it could be your career
one day. The time has come now to make
the best use of this opportunity with
the bigwigs from all over the world investing
in India. You name any industry, there
seems to be a branch in India. The need
for translation of many foreign languages
is the need of the hour.
Translation can be a promising career,
wherein you can either take it as a
full-time vocation or as a supplement
to your writing jobs.
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| Getting started
as a translator |
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If you aspire to be a
translator, first of all, you need to
know a language or two. There are lots
of institutions and schools, which provide
training in foreign languages like French,
German, Japanese, Spanish, etc. You
need not panic as you don't have to
be a native Japanese speaker or fluent
in Arabic to start translating. Like
all professions particularly writing,
takes time to learn both the technique
and the trade. Let’s assume for
example that you are at ease with reading
general texts in a certain language.
Now you have a choice, wherein you can
take a course of some kind, or you can
try to gain professional experience
and make this your career. You could
go to educate yourself with a post-graduation
in the language of your choice. If you
want to pursue a career in translating
commercial texts, you could specialize
in learning not just one language but
many.
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| Skills required to
become a translator |
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| Good communication skills,
patience, attention to detail, expression,
and composition are the most important
basic skills necessary for a career in
translation. There are many language schools
from where you can get trained or you
can utilize the knowledge you have acquired
in your school and college. For this you
would have to just upgrade on the subject
and practice a bit more to make it as
your career. a |
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| Institutions in
India that provide training in translation |
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| There are lots of institutions
that provide training and diploma/graduation
courses in foreign languages. Courses
in foreign languages like French, German,
Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Tibetan, Persian
and English are commonly available in
India. There are many independent schools
of languages that teach a particular language
or if you are keen to learn more than
one you can enroll yourself for many languages.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,
IGNOU, Delhi University, Central Institute
of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad,
and many other institutes all over the
country provide good training in the foreign
languages. You can get more info at Alliance
François for French and Max Muller
for German. . |
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| Remuneration in translation |
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| You will love the wonderful
payments you will get at the end of the
month, if you are freelancer then the
payment is immediate, i.e., once your
finish your job. In translation, each
word is worth its weight in gold! It’s
like you will have enough for a month
by working for two days. All this depends
on your ability to render the job as per
the stipulated time and with marked accuracy.
The rate of translation starts from
Rs.3 per word. A professional freelance
translator can up to Rs.1000 per day.
This again depends on your educational
qualification and your experience. If
you are employed as a salaried person
in a company you starting pay package
may vary from 15,000 to 18,000 per month.
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