How can Italian be useful to your career? Here are a few examples:
- Law: Italian is the closest existing language to Latin, which can help with remembering law terms.
- Anthropology: According to UNESCO, most of the world's cultural heritage sites are in Italy.
- Art: Some of the most remarkable cultural works in the entire world were produced by Italians and some words in the field are still Italian or have Italian roots.
- History: Italian gives you access to one of the richest cultural traditions in Western Civilization (the Roman Empire, the Renaissance).
- Medicine: Learning Italian as a world language will help you with memorization of Latin-based words.
- English and World Languages: Italian will help you gain a better understanding of your first language; also, Italy inspired a lot of world writers such as Keats (buried in Rome), Shelley, Byron, and many more.
- Music and Theatre: Opera was born in the Italian language, so world singers need to know Italian to sing operas.
Other careers students of Italian can pursue are:
- Computer programming and web design
- Public relations
- Journalism
- Telecommunications
- Arts administration
- Politics
- Government employment
- Diplomacy
- International trade
- Military
- Priesthood and mission work