Career Course ::: Learning Foreign Languages ::: Other Institutes / Courses
Several universities in India offer courses in various foreign languages at Certificate, Diploma, Advanced Diploma, Foreign language as one of the subjects, B.A. (Hons) and M.A. level part-time/full time courses. Besides, there are many private colleges running courses in foreign languages. Most of them are of course located only in the metros, about which one can easily find the details.
THE DIRECTORATE OF TOURISM INFORMATION & TOURISM DEPT:
Fort St.George, Chennai - 600009 offers Tourist Guide Training course to graduates residing at Mamalapuram, Kancheepuram, Madurai, Tiruchirapalli, Rameshwaram and Kanyakumari. The course is held in Chennai. On completing your 6 week training course successfully, you will work as a Freelance Tourist Guide in any of the spots mentioned above the self employment scheme.
Qualification:Graduation. Age: 25 to 40 years as on 1st October of the year of admission. Diploma holders in Tourism with knowledge of a foreign language and aptitude for a Indian history and culture, are preferred. It is an regarding enjoyable job.
YOU CAN LEARN FOREIGN LANGUAGES ON INTERNET:
If you access to the internet facility you can also learn any of the following foreign languages The following URLs http://www.travlang.com/languages/ Designed for travellers, the site provides basic language guides for a huge number of languages - including Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Danish, Greek, German, Gujarati, Swahili and Yiddish.
Hindi: http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/Hindi/hindi.html.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Pantheon/6077/ , a portal site to self-study of the French, Spanish, Catalanian, Italian, Japanese and Hebrew languages.
ITALIAN: http://www.hardlink.com/-chambers/Italian/ , which has a three-part tutorial designed to get you up to speed with common Italian words.
Spanish:http://www.umr.edu/-amigos/Virtual/ - which has over fifty modules covering pronunciation, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns. Other sites: http//www.june29.com/spanish/and http://home.earthlink.net/-mikcar/
Germany:http://206.211.90.98/german/ , which has a detailed guide to basic and advanced German, and teaches grammar, communicative structures and vocabulary.
Japanese:http://www.bento.com/sushivoc.html and also at the Traveller's japanese page at http://www.ntt.com/japan/japanese/, which teaches essential expressions, pronunciiation and phrases used when
Korean: http://www.best.com/-nessus/kintro/index.htm.
Thai: http://www.tat.or.th/visitor/language.html.
Russian: http://www.tat.or.th/visitor/language.htm,
Australian:http://www.fostersbeer.com
Arabic: http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/Arabic/arabic.html
Mandarin: http://redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/-zhang/speeking.html .
Career in Learning Foreign Languages-Other Institutes and Courses