Point help: I have finally chosen 4 languages to learn to become an interpreter those are arabic,japanese,mandarin,spanish. - Help.com

white_callavswhite_l wrote:
I’m learning to be a translator, which is the bachelor’s degree I’ll have to learn here to be an interpreter, so I have a little experience.
You’ve mostly picked very useful language, but also pretty hard ones. I don’t know which area you want to go into, but mandarin and arabic are very good for economy, while japanese is good for history and technology (obviously). If you don’t speak any of them yet, I’d think about substituting spanish for portuguese, as Brazil is one of the BRIC-states, meaning one of the upcoming superpowers (Brazil, Russia, India, China).
Right now I’d say 1. japanese 2.chinese/arabic 3. spanish.
If you only start learning those language you should consider spending a year in each country first and/or take classes - and I mean a LOT of classes. As an interpreter you don’t have time to look up words or puzzle over grammar. You need to speak the language to near perfection.
Also, just because you speak the language you aren’t necessarily fit to be an interpreter. There are different kinds, of course, while learning you usually have to do all of them. Especially simultaneously interpreting is something that you either have talent for or you don’t, which could mean that you’ll have to put huge loads of work into it and I recommend visiting those classes once or twice, just to see if you could do it.
Wheather or not you can live comfortably with it depends on you and your workload. It’s a very, very stressful job and you need to travel a lot. Also it’s kind of thankless, so you need to cope with the fact that you might not make many friends in your working environment. Most interpreters work self-employed and have only contact to other interpreters when sharing an assignment.
You should consider taking only two of those languages, with three languages you are more than well equipped.
Also you should always consider what it looks like from the outside - jack of all trades, master of none. You’d be better off looking for a specialist field, like medicine, history or economy.

white_callavswhite_l wrote:
I’m learning to be a translator, which is the bachelor’s degree I’ll have to learn here to be an interpreter, so I have a little experience.
You’ve mostly picked very useful language, but also pretty hard ones. I don’t know which area you want to go into, but mandarin and arabic are very good for economy, while japanese is good for history and technology (obviously). If you don’t speak any of them yet, I’d think about substituting spanish for portuguese, as Brazil is one of the BRIC-states, meaning one of the upcoming superpowers (Brazil, Russia, India, China).
Right now I’d say 1. japanese 2.chinese/arabic 3. spanish.
If you only start learning those language you should consider spending a year in each country first and/or take classes - and I mean a LOT of classes. As an interpreter you don’t have time to look up words or puzzle over grammar. You need to speak the language to near perfection.
Also, just because you speak the language you aren’t necessarily fit to be an interpreter. There are different kinds, of course, while learning you usually have to do all of them. Especially simultaneously interpreting is something that you either have talent for or you don’t, which could mean that you’ll have to put huge loads of work into it and I recommend visiting those classes once or twice, just to see if you could do it.
Wheather or not you can live comfortably with it depends on you and your workload. It’s a very, very stressful job and you need to travel a lot. Also it’s kind of thankless, so you need to cope with the fact that you might not make many friends in your working environment. Most interpreters work self-employed and have only contact to other interpreters when sharing an assignment.
You should consider taking only two of those languages, with three languages you are more than well equipped.
Also you should always consider what it looks like from the outside - jack of all trades, master of none. You’d be better off looking for a specialist field, like medicine, history or economy.

Thank you for your reply I have to ask you one more thing that B.E graduate like me you insist me to get into the B.E field is that you are saying? you say that this is a very hard one to work,and better dont choose this field is that what do you say?