Most Indians are bilingual, and today, many more, are learning foreign languages as well. Okay, so you studied French / German in college and were on the merit list, but now you feel a bit rusty. How about taking a quick crash course and polishing up your grammar and accent? You could be on your way to big bucks!
Opportunity
Today, globalization has wiped out borders and multinationals are setting up businesses in India. The Japanese, Koreans, the Finnish, French and the Germans are re-locating their offices and officers. One thing common to all, is that they need translators / interpreters. Business or technical documents may need to be translated from their mother tongue to English, and this is where your knowledge of a language comes in!
The sky is the limit .
Your services may be required to translate documents, audio or videos, business lectures, advertising material for multinationals. You can also offer translation into the local language for cartoons / movies, TV soaps, travel, cookery or even historical programmes.
The scope is infinite, and you may not even have to leave your home to undertake these translation assignments!
The scope.
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You are free to choose your assignments, whether you'd like to take on the written assignments or spoken assignments.
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If you are looking at spoken assignments, you will need to work at site
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For written assignments, feel comfortable at your desk!
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You are free to choose how many or which assignments you'd like to take up.
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Remuneration is often at par with international standards, and this line pays well.
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You can also consider translating newspaper articles from English to the local language or vice versa.
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Knowledge of a foreign language is not necessary. You could do equally well with Hindi /Tamil / Bengali / English translations.
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If you are at home with a foreign language, circulate your resume amongst the expat crowd / language institutes etc.
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Translating business documents can easily fetch you Rs. 300 per page. If you are into creative work, you can certainly charge more. |
So, does this translate well for you? Go right ahead and brush up your linguistic skills today...
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