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Hi, I'm new here and thought I'd make my own post after reading through this very informative thread.

Hi

Does anybody know any good materials any courses helping with medical translations?

Hello TranslatorsCafé, I'm 20 years old and will in the near future will be faced with a difficult dilemma regarding my future career so i thought someone here might have some advice.

In soon 5 years i have been casually exposed to the japanese language through different types of media and have done some self study although nothing serious however thanks to this i know abit japanese, not enough to be able to have a own conversation but I understand minimum half of a "normal"(not about anything advanced) conversation. 

So the dilemma is that I was planning on study japanese but now i'm unsure because since some time back korean has also become an alternative, I think there will be a higher demand for korean movies to be subtitled than japanese but the catch is that I know only a handful of words in korean so i will have to learn from scratch while i have a head start in japanese.

Of course I'm not expecting to get offered translating movies/series or whatever I'm going to take any text that comes my way that needs to be translated also I don't like either language more than the other, i like Asian languages in general, and would love to learn both of the languages and more after that but It costs money, time and it wouldn't contribute much other than to my own desire for languages.

Japanese pros/cons:
+ head start in terms of language skills
+ know more about japan than korea
+ probably more integrated on the international market
- probably more translators for japanese --> tougher competition for me
- life in Japan seems very stressful(Although nothing says i have to live there and it's probably stressful else where)

Koean pros/cons:
+ Makes many good movies/series that rates high even in west
+ Korean movies/series hasn't taken it's "rightful spotlight" in the west yet - less translators --> more opportunities for me
+ I like Korean movies more than japanese ones(this realy considdered a pro?, couldn't think of anything..)
- I know only a handful of words
- Don't know much about Korean society other than they're in war with North Korea and their capital is named Seoul.

 

Thanks in advance,
Juggvard

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