A few days ago
Anonymous

What can I do with my BA in French?

any ideas?

also studied linguistics.

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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Seriously – consider The Peace Corps and opportunities to serve in former French colonies. You’ll never regret it.
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A few days ago
brownieleslie
With just a degree in French, you don’t have many options. The job market’s super-tight and if you don’t have other, more practical skills you will spend a long time looking for a low-wage job. Your options right now are to:

1. Go back to school, get your teaching license, and teach French.

2. Go back to school, get your Ph.D, and fight for a small number of university positions.

3. Go back to school, get an MA in translation, and fight for jobs with native French speakers who’ll be preferred over you.

4. Go back to school and get a degree in something else, preferably accounting or nursing.

5. Look around for a clerical position and move back home.

6. Spend a year as a teaching assistant in France so as to have a break while you decide what to do.http://www.ambafrance-us.org/visitingfrance/teach.asp

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A few days ago
Mike G
Teach English as a second language to French speakers, or the many other options mentioned above.

Graduate study is also an option — linguistics is a growing field of research at the university level, and a background in a second language is an added bonus.

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A few days ago
Queenie knows it all.
Teach French perhaps. Or work for a company that does business with France and needs help interpreting what those foreigners are saying.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
Hopefully,

Speak French?

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A few days ago
Tom S
Teach French or possibly move to a French speaking country and work there. You could also teach English in a francophone country or society.

Bonne chance.

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A few days ago
Wizard lvl 99
Teach or be a tour guide to French people who visit America or work on a French airline.
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A few days ago
SweetBrunette
Translator for United Nations
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A few days ago
TandL
Pursue a teaching degree and and become a french teacher
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A few days ago
bedbye
High school teacher in French
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