Are small languages still popular? What is the future employment situation?

Are small languages still popular? Future employment

First, what is a small language?

According to the official definition, minority languages refer to languages other than the common languages of the United Nations (Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic). But in fact, at the level of mass communication, basically, except English and Chinese, other regional languages are considered as small languages.

Second, "unpopular small languages" and "popular small languages"

Generally speaking, the majors offered by universities are based on annual applications. The more candidates choose to learn a language, the more schools offer this major, and vice versa. Of course, the state will also carry out some regulation at the macro level, and many extremely unpopular language majors are more strategic than practical. According to the number of institutions offering majors, the popular minor language majors are: Russian, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Italian and so on.

Minority languages include Persian, Filipino, Sanskrit Pali, Indonesian, Hindi, Cambodian, Lao, Burmese, Malay, Mongolian, Urdu, Hebrew, Hausa, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Swedish, Dutch and Lithuanian.

Third, the employment situation of minority language majors

Most graduates majoring in language are engaged in similar professional jobs, usually teachers (schools or English training institutions), translators (translators, interpreters), employees of foreign companies and so on. However, the essence of minority languages is more like a tool than a technology. If you can master some other skills on the premise of being familiar with small languages, it will be smooth to find a job in the future.

In addition, learning any foreign language major in China requires students to master a second foreign language, which means that if they are English majors, they must choose to learn a small language as a second foreign language; If you are a minor language major, most people will choose English as a second foreign language. So even if you can't do the work related to small languages in the future, you can do the work related to English as long as you can learn English well.