Mandarin is a fantastic amplifier, a great key to increase access and a defining characteristic that will fertilise a true passion or skill.
The jobs relating to sheer translation will all but disappear within the next 10 years as technology replaces much requirements for human support.
What will remain however is the basic human needs for trust and certainty, someone that can bring that to the equation within multicultural setting or indeed on an international level will have great value.
To the many businesses I talk with and friends in both the Uk and China that are business owners it's the cultural understanding and personal touch a Mandarin speaker can bring which is the USP.
Combing this element with another skill set or industry is the magic formula.... finance and... trade/ commerce and... education and ... market entry, strategy, execution, recruitment etc there is literally endless combinations that Mandarin enhances.
Thomas Camilleri
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> On 10 Feb 2017, at 19:04, Frances Weightman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Penny/everyone
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> If the pupils are happy to think ahead a bit (!) the Association for Speakers of a Second Language (www.chinesespeakers.org) might be useful - we've got sth over 800 members all with minimum HSK5 or equivalent as a 2nd language. Most of the profiles aren't accessible unless you join, but the advisory board (http://www.chinesespeakers.org/advisory-board.htm though it's a bit out of date!) provides a reasonably diverse group of professionals who've all got degrees in Chinese. If you could combine that with some younger case studies it might work?
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> Otherwise, in general I'd say popular careers for graduates in Chinese cover translation, interpreting, business, law, diplomacy, journalism and education.
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> Frances
> (Leeds Uni)
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> Sent from my piece of overpriced technology.
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>> On 10 Feb 2017, at 17:54, "Penny Lynch" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Has anyone ever come across any research into the kinds of jobs Mandarin students do with their language?
>> Looking for something I can use with Y9 options pupils
>> Thank you and have a good weekend everyone
>> Penny Lynch
>> Argoed HS
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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