10-21-2009, 01:45 AM
(10-21-2009, 01:31 AM)S0rath 0f the Black Sun Wrote: LOL. Well, look at it this way, if you make a mistake in translation (8-month to 1-year vocational courses here), you can always go back and say sorry and clear up the mess, if you're a chef (about 1-2 years of culinary arts plus advanced studies) and made a mistake, you can either eat your own mistakes, have your clients have food poisoning or throw it out, if you're a doctor (total of 10 years of schooling and exams) and made a mistake, harm or kill your patient, you are standing to lose your license, your chance to continue your medical practice, lawsuits for neglect/malpractice, and might even face fines and go to jail. Yeah, more years = high stakes sometimes.
Grey's was good on the first few seasons but after a while it became pointless, I'd rather watch Scrubs or House which is funny and more reality-based and much more worth the watch OR hang out in Discover channel's discovery health.
Where exactly do you live? I'm a sophomore in HS and don't know much about the different degrees here (I know, shame on me :b), but I've read that you need at least a bachelor's degree to do translation, and if you want to work in the medical field as a translator (example: translating antibiotic instructions, telling them they can either die or be in pain for the rest of their life, ect) or in the legal system (translating during court hearings, ect) then you have to have a master's degree in most cases. I still am not decided as to which language(s) I'll take in college. It took me like two years to learn how to speak Swedish fluently, but I still have great difficulties with understanding spoken Swedish. However, I can write/read/speak it just fine. Oklahoma doesn't really give you any exposure to foreign languages except Spanish
I hope to speak German fluently by the time I graduate, but I doubt that'll happen. I'll at least have the basics down, though.