TOP 10 HIGHEST PAID LANGUAGES (Freelance Translator)

For this video, I compiled a list with the highest paying languages in the translation industry (to be taken with a grain of salt). Check it out now!

Video by *Adrian Probst*
Spanish subtitles by Facundo Obregón
Brazilian Portuguese subtitles by Bianca Anaia
Indonesian subtitles by Ilham Fadila

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[cathyfouquet]

Based on my experience as an employee, freelancer and employer of fellow translators, my top 10 excluding English because it's usually the target or source language (before I watch the video) : 1. Chinese 2. Japanese 3. Korean 4. Arabic 5. Spanish 6. French 7. Portuguese 8. German 9. Russian 10. Indonesian

[cpohcbr]

I am definitely finding the interesting issue that you mentioned with Arabic. I am a native English speaker who studied Arabic as an undergraduate and then translation in graduate school. It seems like there isn’t much content being translated from Arabic into English (or if there is I’m not seeing it), and there are also a lot of Arabic native speakers translating into English. It’s been very difficult for me to find jobs!

[bryanpineda]

So glad to hear that I already speak two of the top 4 (one natively and the second to a B2+ level, possibly) I just got to improve them and should be good to go, thanks so much for the video !!

[cheddarcheese]

Great video! I'm starting on my education certification now for languages. Languages I have a background in are French, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese and English. This helps me put into perspective future career opportunities.

[StealthheartDraws]

Interesting video, but if anyone is waiting to get to the list, it’s at 4:37
Also I speak English natively and want to learn German because Im moving to Germany and would love to work in translation

[learnchinesewithseva]

Great video! Thank you for your valuable information! I am fluent in Chinese, but now I started to learn German!

[RobertWedderburn]

Thanks for this video and all the info you share!!

[mohammedjaafer]

I am an Arabic English translator and yeah, so much English-Arabic Translators are there which makes it very difficult to find related jobs. I am now unemployed in Iraq sadly but I hope to work sometime soon as my college degree ❤

[coolpersonwithcake]

4 of my languages are in this list and 2 or 3 that I want to learn!
What I'm really struggling with is to find what type of markets are in need of translations into English from French, Spanish and Italian.

[ionmorozan]

Hi from Moldova 🇲🇩😅. Well 40k a year would really be a lot over here because the average salary is around 300€ per month, anyway, I wish you all success!

[TheFilmDigest]

I translate English to Martian.
Pay is great, demand is high,
but I'm not allowed to put it in my portfolio (Confidentiality Agreement)

[TheEnglishExperience]

I translate from Portuguese to English and vice versa, and what I find is similar to what you said, build a network and niche down, do a great job and the money will come. Don't learn a new language to translate in just because it supposedly pays better. Thanks for the video!

[StoyanPetrov_SpanishTranslator]

Fantastic video, Adrian! But I have a few questions, though.

1. What are the rates that are shown on Proz? Are they the rates agencies are paying?
2. Spanish is my strongest language since I was raised in Spain, originally from Bulgaria, though. What language would be more lucrative for me to learn first, Russian or German? Learning any of them would be easy, since I enjoy learning languages and have a pretty good memory. Bulgarian and Russian are 60% mutually intelligible, and I could have an extremely high passive proficiency in Russian in a few months. And I believe it is easier to find an astronaut than it is to find a native Spanish speaker, fluent in any Slavic language.
3. When I check the rates on Proz, for translating into Spanish, I see that some languages that are the same (Bulgarian/Macedonian or have different rates. The standard for Bulgarian and Serbian into Spanish is 0.09 euros, and for Macedonian, Bosnian and Croatian is 0.10 euros. How comes? If some Balkan nationalist is going to comment the similarities and differences of these languages, please, do restrain yourself! This is not about politics.

Many thanks :)

[TanjaStojanovic]

Hi Adrian, I work as a Translation Project Coordinator and will give you some info here. The highest paid languages are: EN-US to:
ZH-CN,
ZH-TW,
SV,
NO,
DA,
JA,
KO,
NL,
ES,
DE,
FR-EU.

[ensfjiy]

Thank you so much for information..there is not much of information on this subject so it's great that you have helped us 👍 I am a certified interpreter and my (certified) languages are Finnish, Arabic and Turkish. I have graduated from a Finnish university with both languages and I currently study physiotherapy in Swedish university 🤓🤓. I dream of working from home especially now that I become a mother.

[shrutiagokhale]

Hii sir.. I'm from india . To be honest i really not understood all your information which was given in this video. But i understand all the language by learning this we can make carrier . I'm thinking to learn German language actually now i am learning english .so after three month i will join the German language institute .this is really helpful video thanks😊

[hunt_er]

I’ve only recently started seriously considering translation as a job. I know French and Spanish, Portuguese but very rusty so doesn’t count atm, and I’m currently learning Thai and Korean.

[lih]

Hi, I always enjoy your videos. You could literally profit from writing an ebook with all the real tips you provide in your videos.
I have an emergency question haha Is it proper to write your name (like give yourself credit) at the end of a translation? I know not all translations but for example I’m translating a magazine right now. I’ve seen people credited at the end of books and such. Do you have a recommendation? I feel super weird turning it in and have them see I wrote my name to give myself credit Lol

[Matt-jcml]

Surprised to see Spanish there. Maybe I'll do this. I speak fluent spanish after living in Mexico for a year. I could also do Russian but my level is a bit lower, I'm living in Russia now so my level is increasing quickly. My first language is english (American)

[afifakhan]

Hello adrian... I'm taking arabic language as my career... How much time it will take for my specialization in Arabic..? Please reply...