Linguist

True scientists of language, linguists analyse, dissect and describe languages to help us better understand how they work. They work on both ancient languages and entirely contemporary ones.

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Fun fact

Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structures. Without it, we’d never know that there’s an African language that uses just five distinct clicking sounds to make up the entire language. Or that “cliché” was originally an onomatopoeia, from the sound the old printing presses would make when making lots of copies. You know, interesting stuff like that!

Skills

Hard skills

  • History
  • Linguistics
  • Semantics
  • Employ translation techniques
  • Modern languages
  • Spelling
  • Phonetics
  • Grammar

Soft skills

  • Active problem identification
  • Persuasion and inspiration
  • Teaching and mediation

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