Jae Marple

BA Modern Languages, 2018

Spanish/Portuguese/French translator

I’ve always loved French since my very first lesson at secondary school, while my desire to learn Spanish and Portuguese came about through the great interest I developed in Latin America during Geography lessons at school. After completing my MA in Applied Translation studies, I set up a freelance translation business in 2019 and now work for a mixture of direct and agency clients, specialising in sport, tourism and international development translation. The knowledge that I acquired in my language and cultural modules at Warwick equipped me with the linguistic and cultural expertise that I use every single day to produce high-quality translations. Having to hand in multiples pieces of work for all three languages every week at Warwick has also prepared me to deal with tight deadlines in the translation industry — clients want everything doing yesterday.

Studying languages at university gives you the chance to delve deeper into the cultures of the countries where these languages are spoken and the invaluable opportunity to live and work/study in other countries and meet people from all over the world.