Are you enthralled by the study of language? Do you want a job that will enable you to exploit your proficiency in language? If the answer to these queries is yes, a career as a linguist may interest you.
Professional linguists work in an array of areas.
Computational linguists enjoy the opportunity to work for the software industry on speech fusion, speech recognition, innate language processing, simulated aptitude, and even computer-arbitrated language learning.
Language educators may teach their native or a foreign language at any level. Linguists associated with education are not constrained to teaching, they also develop learning materials, provide training to language teachers, and find resources to review their work and teach language more competently.
Linguists also work to document, scrutinize, and help in maintaining imperiled languages by carrying out fieldwork and launching literacy curriculums.
Armed With supplementary training, interpretation and translation are other prospective careers for linguists. Translators and interpreters can even work for the corporate sector, healthcare facilities and educational institutions and the tourism and aviation industry.
You can also enjoy the opportunity of slotting yourself in exploratory work by working as a special linguist agent for government security agencies.
This profession will facilitate you to be at the vanguard of live action as you make use of your language and investigative skills to get proof of surveillance activities, go undercover, apprehend criminals, interrogate eyewitnesses and offer evidence in court.
These are some of the career opportunities open to professional linguists. Openings are also available in the publishing industry, editing dictionaries and thesauruses, and the film and entertainment industry.
