With the recent arising need to break communication barriers, countries and international organizations have realized the significance of personnel or individual training in basic and/or advanced communication skills in foreign languages. Several curriculums were introduced for different languages, the DELF (Diploma of French Language Studies) and DALF (Advanced Diploma of French Language) courses as well as in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).

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If you are an entrepreneur, or a business executive, speaking multiple languages is one of the skills that must be on top of the things you can do. Being able to speak multiple languages has a lot of advantages for business and this article discusses these:

Expand your business territory

Being able to do business in multiple countries or with people that speak other languages means business (pun intended). Learning a new language will afford you the confidence to be able to expand your business territory as you will be able to understand new markets and devise ways in which you can reach those markets.

Knowing a language is the first step to removing your fears of doing business in another territory where they speak a different language than the one you speak.

Be culture sensitive

Language is the first stop to learning and understanding a new culture. Once you learn a new language, you will be able to appreciate how and why people of a different culture act in the ways they do. This is very valuable for business because not being able to relate with the culture of others would put you at a disadvantage when doing business with them.

Improve customer service

As an entrepreneur, you will be speaking with a lot of people as you service them. Learning a new language, even your own language, will help you to serve people better.

Communication is key to a better customer service and language is at the center of all communication. Having learnt a language spoken by your customers means they will be able to know that you understand and care for their needs. This is great for business.

In addition, cultural sensitivity is also important for an excellent customer service and as we have seen, learning a language helps you to understand and appreciate people’s culture more.

Improve employee relationships

If you have employees that speak a different language than the one you speak, you will find learning a new language so rewarding as you will be able to communicate and understanding your employees’ needs better.

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You might have been wondering what it is that you can benefit through learning a new language. Apart from the advantages of learning a new language that we have already covered here, learning a foreign language has advantages that stretches to opening you up to new jobs.

In this article, we round up some 10 jobs you can land yourself in with your new language you have acquired.

Language teacher

Language teaching is not something that many people have taken up. There are huge gaps that need to be filled in the field of language teaching. You can land yourself a lucrative language teaching job either part time or full time if you know a foreign language such as Chinese, Japanese or French.

The upside of language teaching is that you can decide to offer your services as a private personal tutor, a classroom teacher or an online tutor. Being an online language tutor for example, means you will have flexible working times.

Interpreter

If you know more languages than your indigenous language, you can offer your services as an interpreter in different ways. You can be an individual interpreter or you can interpret for business functions such as conferences where different people of different languages meet.

Translator

The great thing about languages is that there are lots of them and that means lots of documents written in different languages. As a translator, your job would be to convert these documents from the original language that they were written in to another language.

Apart from documents, there are courses, video subtitles and other media that need to be translated. As someone who knows multiple languages, this is a lot of opportunities out there waiting for you to grab as a translator.

Transcription

If you know a language well and can type fast, then transcription is for you. The advantage of this job is that you will be able to complete it online while in the comfort of your own home. There are a lot of transcription jobs that can be completed online – affording you that extra income you have always wanted to earn.

Tour guide

Lastly, as someone who knows a foreign language, you can take up jobs as a tour guide. A tour guide or a tourist guide is a person who provides assistance, information on cultural, historical and contemporary heritage to people on organized tours and individual clients at educational establishments, religious and historical sites, museums, and at venues of other significant interest, attractions sites.

Being able to communicate in multiple languages, especially those spoken by the tourists, is a basic skill every tour guide is supposed to have.

Learning a new language is one of the most rewarding things one can do. However, to ensure that you pick up the language faster, mixing different learning methods is important. Some of the methods you can use include listening to music in the language you are learning and watching movies.

• Virunga [https://www.netflix.com/watch/80009431]

In the forested depths of eastern Congo lies Virunga National Park, one of the most bio-diverse places in the world and home to the last of the mountain gorillas. In this wild, but enchanted environment, a small and embattled team of park rangers – including an ex-child soldier turned ranger, a carer of orphan gorillas and a Belgian conservationist – protect this UNESCO world heritage site from armed militia, poachers and the dark forces struggling to control Congo’s rich natural resources. When the newly formed M23 rebel group declares war in May 2012, a new conflict threatens the lives and stability of everyone and everything they’ve worked so hard to protect.

• Sheherazade [https://www.netflix.com/watch/81012340]

Fresh out of juvenile detention and rejected by his mother, 17-year-old Zach begins living on the streets of France and falls for a young prostitute.

• I am not an easy man [https://www.netflix.com/watch/80175421]

Damien is a shameless chauvinist who has all the benefits of living in a patriarchal society. After a bump to the head, Damien passes out. When he wakes up, he finds himself in what seems to be an alternate universe where gender roles are reversed and women have the power. Damien, confused, now that he experiences sexism himself, struggles to find his place in this foreign new world, and seduce Alexandra, a (female) chauvinist herself and influential novelist in this female-dominated world.^[3]

• Nothing to hide [https://www.netflix.com/watch/81004099]

A group of old friends and their partners meet up one evening for a dinner party hosted by Marie and Vincent. A rare lunar eclipse is also expected to occur on the same evening. At the dinner table, after hearing of Ben’s questionably humorous story of a woman who found out about her husband’s extramarital affairs only upon his death at the hospital after looking through the messages on his unlocked mobile phone, the group then starts discussing their phone lock settings and sharing information on their phones with their partners. To spice up the dinner, Marie then suggests a game where everyone surrenders their phones to the centre of the table and any messages, emails, or calls received on anyone’s phone would have to be shared with everyone else. As the game progresses, more secrets begin to unravel, putting doubts on their friendships and marriages

• Lady J [https://www.netflix.com/watch/81024044]

A wealthy widow concocts a scheme to get revenge when her romance with a lustful marquis takes an unwelcome turn.

• Wedding unplanned [https://www.netflix.com/watch/80171705]

When a woman discovers a wedding planner’s business card, she instantly says yes to her partner, unaware that the card belongs to his mistress. The groom becomes trapped between his bride and his lover, who is in charge of his unwanted marriage.

• In the shadow of Iris [https://www.netflix.com/watch/80156857]

The wife of a rich banker disappears in Paris, and a young mechanic in debt may be linked to the abduction. However, as the case unfolds before their eyes, the investigators realise they are still far from understanding the truth.

• Divines [https://www.netflix.com/watch/80115031]

In a housing estate on the outskirts of Paris, a teenager who is hungry for her share of power and success becomes a runner for a drug dealer. When she meets a male dancer, a window of opportunity offers a different kind of life.

• Nocturama [https://www.netflix.com/watch/80144455]

After planting bombs in the streets of Paris, a group of disillusioned young people spends a tense night holed up in a high-end department store.

• The crew [https://www.netflix.com/watch/80196044]

A successful team of armored truck robbers (Sami Bouajila, Guillaume Gouix, Youssef Hajdi, David Saracino) get pressured into helping with a large-scale robbery by drug dealers who refuse to take “no” for an answer.