What is the Scope of the Italian language?
Learning a new language is very beneficial in the present world. But before learning a language you need to be aware of “what are the scope and opportunities” that the language that you are learning or planning to learn is giving you in return. So, before making any decision let’s check out the history of the Italian language.
Italian is a Romance language is spoken mainly in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, Slovenia, and Croatia. In Switzerland, it is spoken in Graubünden and Ticino cantons in the southeast. In Croatia, it is spoken mainly in Istria County in the northwest, and it is spoken in the neighbouring Istria region of southwest Slovenia. Not only in the said countries, Italian is also spoken in Malta, Monaco, Romania, France, Eritrea, Somalia, Brazil, Australia, and the USA.
There are about 64 million native speakers of Italian worldwide, another 3 million people speak it as a second language. In Italy, in 2012 about 59 million people spoke Italian. Half the population speaks standard Italian as a native language, and the other half speak regional dialects and languages as their first languages and Italian as a second language. There are many accents and dialects for Italian according to the geography and parts of Italy.
So, now you have a fair idea about the italian language, let’s go to the point where you can make a career and some scope of Italian Language-
1.Teaching profession.
This profession is considered one of the reputable and respected jobs in any country.
There are many colleges and universities that have Italian language departments. But for this particular profession, you need your qualification to be on top and need to have the required criteria laid out by the universities and the colleges.
Not only in colleges and universities, but you can also work in a private language institute as Italian language trainer.
2.Translator and interpreter
This is the most common career option for language learners. Due to the lack of italian speakers in India, this language is one of the highly demanding languages for translation and interpretation. For the translation and interpretation you need to excel in both the source language and target language. Not only the language you need to learn the colloquial terms and gestures of the language in order to fully convey the meaning of the source language. Many MNCs are giving opportunities for the linguals, it all depends on your skills. Not only as a company employee you can work as a freelancer and earn a decent amount on your own rules.
3.Work in Italian Embassy
You can work in the Italian embassy as a translator and interpreter or any other job according to your post and qualification.
4.Freelancer
Due to globalisation and trade between the countries, the need for freelancers that work on their terms and conditions is very demanding. You can work as a transcriber for the Italian language. But in this profession, you need to have excellent listening skills and you need to be quick on your feet. Not the only transcription, you can work as a content writer, editor proofreader, subtitler and blog writer etc after learning Italian.
Finally,
All the best options have been laid out for you, of course, you can add more to the list too. But before planning for a career, you need to learn the language first, right? It will be impossible to learn a language without a professional to guide you. No, DIYs in learning a language. So, here it is, one of the best platforms, to learn the language is Multibhashi, not only the Italian language, Multibhashi offers many learning opportunities to learn foreign languages as well as Indian Regional Languages. You can check it out on their website to know more details about the free demo class and all your needs and guidance.