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    Default i finally know what i want to go to college for...

    linguistics.

    i want to be a translator.

    either japanese or spanish. im not sure which would be more profitable.

    anyone know anything about these jobs or where i can find out more about the pay and demand for what languages?

    im stoked!!

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    Default Re: i finally know what i want to go to college for...

    I'm inclined to say Japanese because you'd be able to work with big transnational companies that can afford to pay big bucks for their translators. Think electronics.
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    Default Re: i finally know what i want to go to college for...

    Linguistics is certainly interesting!
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    Default Re: i finally know what i want to go to college for...

    Hard to say. Spanish is pretty common, so I'm sure Spanish-English translators are just as common. Japanese definitely has a market, but there are very few Japanese business people who haven't made it a point to learn English...

    ...but I'd say of the two, Japanese fo' sho'.

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    Default Re: i finally know what i want to go to college for...

    You don't want to study linguistics necessarily, then, you want to study foreign languages. I think. The Other Owner can probably tell you everything you want to know about this. And he'll also probably tell you to study Russian.

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    Default Re: i finally know what i want to go to college for...

    I'd honestly suggest Mandarin Chinese or Arabic. A lot of people already know Japanese, although it is worth a shot. With Arabic, you could go into intelligence or oil. We all know that China is the next big superpower too...

    Oh, if you decide to go into Japanese, PM me, I can hook you up with a lot of language learning materials like Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone.

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    Default Re: i finally know what i want to go to college for...

    Arabic is kinda of tricky because there are actually allot of languages in that area of the world.

    Susan is correct you want to study Foreign Language, linguistics : the study of human speech including the units, nature, structure, and modification of language
    (. Basically what makes a language a language. Why does english and the romantic languages use letters while indo-asian languages use graphs/sybols.

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    Default Re: i finally know what i want to go to college for...

    Yeah, you want to major in the language itself, not linguistics. I agree that Chinese or Arabic will be in higher demand, but if it's got to be Japanese or Spanish, then I'd go with Japanese. Bilingual Spanish-English speakers are a dime a dozen already.

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    ^Amen. Linguistics majors are a joke. It's basically a modified English major. I have a few friends who majored in linguistics, and scoff at it all the time. Go with the language itself.

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    Default Re: i finally know what i want to go to college for...

    I've always wanted to get a master's in linguistics for fun, one day.

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    Default Re: i finally know what i want to go to college for...

    Well, linguistics does have its uses. When used in conjunction with actual languages, it's very useful. It's also great if you want to go into the Noam Chomsky stuff. Otherwise, it's an applied major. Go for the language itself if this is what you're after.

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