After finishing school I want to learn to be a linguist. I was always attracted by the study of languages. At the moment I have the basic levels on Russian, English, German and Spanish languages, besides the initial level of the Italian and French languages. I was also very interested in the Surdo-languages, I began to study the Russian language (РЖЯ) and American sign language (ASL).
For many people, such work may seem rather boring. The most part of scientific works in the field of linguistics are simply filing and copying someone's previously stated thoughts. The novelty may be except that the study of the dead languages or older variants of existing languages. But for those who, for example, the texts of the archeological findings trying to determine the boundaries of the settlement of this or that people in ancient times, such work can quite bring moral satisfaction.
To work in this profession one should have higher education in the philological speciality. After graduating from the University, a linguist should go to graduate school to become a researcher, and then he may be considered a professional in this sphere.
Representatives of this profession are not so often. They, of course, you can enter to the scholar, but not all scholars are linguists. On this specialty work of scientists in Universities the departments of foreign languages, Philology and other areas. Also, people with such a profession can be found in the research organizations; among employees, creating computer programs for translation, typing and checking texts. If a person is studying foreign languages, the need tendency. It is this quality is crucial, since success in this area depends first of all on the innate abilities, and then from time to time, conducted the training.
We cannot say that linguists are so useful specialists, as for example, physics, which work in the sphere of nuclear energy. Nevertheless, this is an important way to study the origin of peoples, their contacts in history, and to create maps of the world of different periods of time. Learning the language helps to create a program to teach it within the country and for foreigners.
It seems to me, that the profession of a linguist helps people discover their abilities in linguistics and helps people from different countries communicate with each other.
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Is there an End to the Computer Race?
Today the word «electronics» is in general usage. Millions of people have electron watches. There are a lot of various radio and TV sets, video cassette recorders and CD players in our houses. In factories and plants we are surrounded with electronically controlled machines and instruments, we are carried by airplanes, ships, trains and cars with built-in electronic devices, and satellites circle the globe. In other words, we are living in an electronic world.
And the center of this world is a tiny silicon plate of a few square millimetres, an integrated circuit, or a chip, as it is more commonly known. The integrated circuit is undoubtedly one of the most sophisticated inventions of man, science and technology. It is in the heart of every electronic device and the more cassette recorders, TV sets and computers we need, the more integrated circuits are required.
When we speak about a further development of computers we mean not only quantity, but also high technology and high speed. As the operation of an integrated circuit depends on microscopic «components», the purity of all materials and the cleanness at the plant they are produced at must be of the highest quality. A continuous search is going on in laboratories throughout the world for more perfect, reliable and high speed electronic circuits.
In the past it took scientists and researchers a whole lifetime to make a few thousand calculations, whereas for a modern computer this task is a matter of a few seconds. At present computers capable of performing billions of operations a second are required. Supercomputers are different from ordinary computers. The ordinary computer does the computations operation by operation, while the supercomputer operates like a brain: all operations are being done simultaneously.