fbi requires one of several qualifiers, based upon military service, police service, computer science, languages, etc. those are the kinds of specialties. youre spot on with those languages though, arabic especially.Lil' Timmy said:
Not doing the language thing, though... although it is ONE of the recommended things (but not required... law, for example, is another) to have had experience in...
the sooner the better, those are two quite foreign foreign languages for a native english speaker. one of my ex-gfs was half-persian and spoke both farsi and mandarin fluently, among others (she was recruited by both the cia and nsa, but didn't pursue either). but i was a right bastard and never made any attempt to learn farsi from herseinfeldrules said:
omfg.Lil' Timmy said:the sooner the better, those are two quite foreign foreign languages for a native english speaker. one of my ex-gfs was half-persian and spoke both farsi and mandarin fluently, among others (she was recruited by both the cia and nsa, but didn't pursue either). but i was a right bastard and never made any attempt to learn farsi from her
but then again i have no ideas about the cia or the like, so it's all good
check fbijobs.com, theres a bunch of good books about all the gov't agencies on amazon.com, most of which available at your local library. ive been reading up on a few of them and they are decent sources of info. military intel is a great way to base your career, especially if you get into it as an officer (through ROTC, OCS, etc). my uncle was an intel officer during vietnam, and later went onto cia analyst work.seinfeldrules said:
Hey thanks for the info man, I'll definitely check it out. And yeah I want to go through ROTC and enter as an officer one day. The money for college wont hurt eithergh0st said:
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there are some good cd sets you can pick up at any software store or online that will help you with any language under the sun, i cant recommend a particular because i have bien public education, ive never had the need for it.Pressure said:No I thought you had info on a place that has stuff that helps teaches language lol. I didn't think you had like a special magic instant language learning tool
i agree with this, though its difficult, and is of no real use for a career in this field
gh0st said:
. I took 6 years of Spanish throughout middle school and highschool. I'm going to take a couple Spanish classes here in college and probably for a few other languages.
community colleges are cheap and offer a lot of languages, usually, at all levels. good for language certification assuming you dont want a degree in it. all youd need to do to be certified by the gov't is pass a language proficiency test.Pressure said:We'll I'm not in Highschool anymore so I can't really do that
Why did you feel the need to do that?
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However now that I think about it, a knowledge of Latin could very well end up being rather useful to you while you study other languages simply because so many things are derived from it. I took it for four years with instruction (still pursue it on my own out of school), and I found it to be very difficult for the first two. In the end it was extremely helpful when it came to learning other languages.
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romance languages arent in demand, because we arent having this conflicts with european and south american countries; when we do theres a bajillion people certified to do work with those languages. middle eastern, east asia, and other areas are much rarer to find expertise in and are much more sought after.qckbeam said:Well I meant it as more of a joke
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