I’m looking for a college/university that offers Japanese, Spanish, and possibly American Sign Language. As well as other courses that will help. And most def, Study Abroad.
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As an aspiring translator/interpreter, which college/univerisity would be best for foreign language majors?
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Besides sign language. Japanese and Spanish is not very lurcrative or in demand.
Spanish is helpful since there is so many hispanics in the USA, but a lot of people speak both fluent English and Spanish in the USA already. Don’t expect a lot of brownie points for being able to speak Spanish.
If you are going to learn Japanese, you should drop it and learn Chinese instead. China’s economy is growing with no signs of slowing down in the near future. Japan’s economy has been going down since the late 90s. If you want to do business in an international capacity in today’s world market. You need to either speak English or Chinese.
If you are going to learn a language and get a 4 year degree in it – learn Farsi, Arabic, Chinese, or Hebrew.
Farsi and Arabic translators make $157,000 starting pay.
Spanish translators make like $40,000 if they are lucky.
In 2008 the DOD conducted a census of its employees. Out of 40,000 employees – only 10 people spoke fluent Farsi. The Pentagon pays top dollar for anyone who can translate thousands of hours of surveillance tapes that they have not yet deciphered.
My wife is a linguist in Arabic and she has job offers in the plus $150K range when she gets out of the military.
BTW. $150,000 plus/year is what some doctors like pediatricians expect to make. I know a lot of people that speak Spanish. They don’t make that kind of money.
Middlebury is hands down the best university for foreign languages. They have undergrad and grad programs, language houses where majors speak the language exclusively, extracurriculars involving each languages, and summer language camps.
You won’t be able to learn 2…and a half…languages at once though, focus on one first. Spanish is very in demand, Japanese is somewhat, and ASL is useless.