Description
Translate words, sentences, and concepts from a foreign language into your mother tongue or another foreign language.
Alternative labels
translate foreign tongue
translate foreign language
interpret spoken language
translating foreign language
Skill type
skill/competence
Skill reusability level
cross-sector
Relationships with occupations
Essential skill
Translate foreign language is an essential skill of the following occupations:
Foreign language correspondence clerk: Foreign language correspondence clerks read and reply to a company’s correspondence in foreign languages. They also perform clerical duties.
Subtitler: Subtitlers can work intralingually, within the same language, or interlingually, across languages. Intralingual subtitlers create the subtitles for hearing-impaired viewers, whereas interlingual subtitlers create the subtitles for movies or television programmes in a different language to the one heard in the audiovisual production. They both ensure that the captions and subtitles are synchronised with the sound, images and dialogue of the audiovisual work.
Optional skill
Translate foreign language is optional for these occupations. This means knowing this skill may be an asset for career advancement if you are in one of these occupations.
Intelligence communications interceptor: Intelligence communications interceptors work in the air force in the development of intelligence in places like headquarters and command posts. They search and intercept electromagnetic traffic transmitted in different languages.
Lexicographer: Lexicographers write and compile the content for dictionaries. They also determine which new words are common use and should be included in the glossary.
References
- Translate foreign language – ESCO
