想問問讀翻譯在香港有出路嗎

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hkflyer 發表於 15-7-6 19:59
女兒想讀英法葡文

讀國際學校？
法文葡文甚麼水平？
翻譯係一種 skill ，唔係外語學校。

1998Ruby1998

我今年DSE，冇讀理科而且對商科冇興趣，我鍾意讀語言，但係喺香港翻譯科淨係中英翻譯，其他語言要自己學/minor語言。我本身有自學俄文同法文，不過喺香港呢行好窄，啲公司好少要求識其他語言，已經預咗離開香港。翻譯本身喺任何國家個人工好懸殊，一係好高(政府/機構)，一係freelance同賺好少。阿爸阿媽唔想我讀翻譯，想我讀Law，但係我淨係鍾意語言。
中大、港大、理工、浸大同嶺南都有得讀，不過理工個科唔叫翻譯，港大同浸大要先入Faculty，第二年再declare major。中大要讀外語要去linguistics申請minor。
去外國讀翻譯機會多好多，搵食都容易少少(起碼外國唔係個個都識中文同英文)。其實英法葡喺外國唔係好夠用，因為外國有好多人喺中學已經有學法文、德文同西班牙文(我英國個親戚O Level 法德西葡 全 A* -_-)。
做翻譯就要預咗出國，否則都係係香港做PR/HR/編輯/老師為多。
總括嚟講：呢條路好難行好少選擇，但係唔代表冇機會。
加油！

1998Ruby1998

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我識個美國朋友話佢哋公司有請內地／香港人做翻譯，佢哋係中英法西翻譯，唔係個個美國人都識晒四種語言，嗰度月薪有兩萬美金。
同埋唔係個個國家都係先進歐美國家同埋識英文，我朋友係亞美尼亞做中英俄翻譯，雖然人工換算返港紙唔高，大約月薪400,000 drams，但係嗰度佢五年買咗兩間大屋，有車有工人，唔駛加班，生活指數當然冇香港咁高，但係佢嘅生活真係好過賺萬六嘅普通香港打工仔好多。

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Do people know HOW you get into being a translator?
For example, if you want to get into "translation" at a local university, you had better be really good at both chinese and english at the same time.
You do not go to translation degree program to LEARN french or russian from lesson one, and then 3 years later you are a french-english or russian-chinese translator!
For the majority of local Hong Kong students, they probably can only be english-chinese translators (and there are probably already lots around in Hong Kong and China).
Even for international school students, most only started learning another language (french, spanish, etc) at Year 7. And by Year 13, most cannot have the standard that qualify them to being a translator.

1998Ruby1998

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Yes, those translators are also responsible for conference interpretation and their company is located in Virginia, home to many translators/interpreters, they are polyglots, not just bilingual. They have also sat for interpret certificate some years ago and their company's customers are mainly from China and France, so they are the holy grail that the company pursuits. I remember that their starting salary is around $ 7,000 six or seven years ago.Like what I have said earlier on, the salary range can be very wide, some can earn $33,000 a month while some can only earn $4,000. But the more languages you know, the path for you is wider.

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I know, but this is a Hong Kong forum, so I did some calculations to make things easier, I am sure that's the sum, perhaps those employees I mentioned are too fortunate and a rare case, but it exists. Like I said, the salary gap is wide.

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1998Ruby1998 發表於 16-6-13 15:48
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I know, but this is a Hong Kong forum, so I did some calculations to make thi ...

If that is a rare case, then it is a rare case.
We do not quote rare cases to show other people what the norm would look like.