I am trying to do some research of jobs that are interesting and challenging that require a second language :)

Flo my daughter is doing extremely well in french at the moment and had a comment from her teacher in her last piece of work that she has never seen work like it from a pupil in her year :D She is also extremely good at English and always has her head stuck in a book :)

I just want to encourage her to look to the future on a career that she will love as not knocking teaching but that is what my ex is trying to encourage her to do.

I thought about something like a diplomat as she will be able to travel as well which I thought would be a great way to see the world as well for her

Any other ideas ?

Thanks

Lucy
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She could do allsorts with a second language, if shes good at English and French (wish I had a second language) how about foreign correspondant journalism or something along those lines?

That is a good one as she is good at creative writing :D

Yes I am the same as I hated languages at school :)

I am now wishing I was your daughter and imagining all the fantastic jobs she could do,

If shes interested in fashion (what teenage girl isn't) she could maybe be a fashion journalist - imagine New York, Madrid, Paris, Rome and hunky models in pants hhmmm.

>If shes interested in fashion (what teenage girl isn't) she could maybe be a fashion journalist - imagine New York, Madrid, Paris, Rome and hunky models in pants hhmmm.

Now wishing I had used my talent for languages rather than deciding to do an 'ology' instead :rolleyes:

*gasp* Sahynlola's turned into Maureen Lipman!!!

>ology<

:D

:D :D

I certainly feel about Maureen Lipman's age today :rolleyes: Oy vey!

Oh dear are you still feeling a bit ropey :D

'A lot ropey' would probably describe it better :D

Sounds like a night I had a few months ago at a works do when I tried to convince the hotel staff I was a concert piano player and could I entertain the other guests :D Can only play chop sticks :D

My felt like death when I woke up the next morning :rolleyes:

We never learn, do we? :rolleyes: :D

Translator? Tourism?

a spy (in france?)

:D :D

With the brown coat, beret, and white ankle socks as favoured by the 'Michelle of the Resistance'.

Hi Lucy,

A school friend of mine also had a talent for languages.  After school she got a degree in languages & linguistics from the University of Essex and a masters in translation from the University of Westminster, London.  After graduating, she joined a translation agency in Covent Garden.  In 2002 she moved to New York working for the British Government.

She loves every minute of her job and the travel opportunities her language skills give her within her jobs.

Good Luck to your daughter.
Helen

Sounds like she landed on her feet and has got a very good job

Good Uni, My boy went and gf still there....

theres a company called 'the big word' they are a translating company internationally- what about that?

My daughter went to a specialist language school and was taught bi-lingually in French (they had lessons in subjects like History and Geography in French) which she loved. Her whole class exchanged with a class from a French school for a month in year 8. She did her work experience in a veterinary practice in France They all took their GCSE a year early and practically all got A*s. They then went onto do AS level in year 11. At that point she started to hate languages and changed schools to avoid doing the International Baccalaureate. She avoided doing French A level at her new school (which would have been an easy option as she had already done the AS). Anyway, the point is that, although Flo loves it at the moment, I would encourage her in EVERYTHING, not just the languages, as she may change her mind numerous times before she gets to sixth from etc. The broader her subject base, the bigger choice she will have later. It's also very important for her to have the best grades she can get in everything - not just the languages :)

My son's girlfriend is just finishing a degree in French and German at Cambridge and has got a job in September as a management trainee in M&S which does not require languages :D :D :D

Daisy

INTERPOL. Working for them means living in Lyon, but a second language would be a definite. There are so many aspects to it, as I looked into it for a career in investigating stolen art and antiquities, but I am at a stage in life now where I want to be settled here not move to Lyon. Might be worth a look though.

A school friend who was brilliant at languages now works for an airline at Heathrow.  She isn't an air stewardess but does some fancy 'organising' job that I don't know much about.  She gets all the free travel she wants!

I think knowing foreign languages is a great advantages in life. In my high school I had Slovenian (my mother tongue), English, German and Italian and I'm so grateful for that!!! There are so many great jobs out there, in fact everybody these days know at least one foreign language, so it's almost a must if you want to be successful.