Discipline overview

In practice when wanting to work at Japanese companies, mastering the Japanese language is an inevitable condition. However, to be able to do this job well, if you do not have enough knowledge and skills to compile – translate well, you will face quite a lot of difficulties.

Understanding the needs of human resources and the need for Japanese interpreters in the context of Vietnam's integration, opening the door to welcome foreign investors, including Japan,  at Duy Tan University was built to train professional Japanese translators and interpreters in the future.

Japanese for Translation and Interpretation is one of the jobs where the labor tool is the language, requiring extensive knowledge of the specialized field, ensuring that the target language must be fully translated and meaningful from the source language.

Studying at duy tan University's Japanese language and culture department, students will be trained in language skills to be able to use their skills in combination with specialized knowledge for the purpose of becoming professional editors and interpreters.

When leaving school, the interpreter will act as an intermediary, a bridge to be able to encrypt the information in the language, namely to translate documents from Japanese to Vietnamese and vice versa.

Duration of training: 4 years

Training program

Japanese for Translation and Interpretation course will provide necessary language knowledge (dialect, vocabulary, grammar), Japanese culture - people - history - literature for students, ensuring the accumulation of far-reaching and comprehensive aspects related to Japan.

Equip students with tricks, translation skills, and translation features.

Training in terms, basic knowledge about specialized fields such as tourism, trade and equipped with additional knowledge such as information technology, foreign languages 2, inter-cultural communication ...

In addition to focusing on specialized knowledge and skills, Duy Tan students are also fostered many "soft" skills such as communication skills, problem solving skills, teamwork skills, public presentation skills,...

In addition, Duy Tan University's Vietnam - Japan training cooperation program such as student exchange, business practice, improving Japanese language qualifications and paid training opportunities in Japan (Intership), as well as opportunities to study abroad in the country of the rising sun ... are expanding with them – students who seize opportunities and strive to study.

Career opportunities

After graduation, Japanese for Translation and Interpretation students can work in Japanese-speaking fields such as:
- Working in diplomatic institutions, economic organizations, representative agencies, commercial offices, government and non-governmental organizations inside and outside as interpreters , meeting, negotiating, bilateral contact ...
- Working as a Japanese interpreter at translation centers, Japanese companies or investing capital, cooperating with Japan...
- Teaching Japanese to Vietnamese, or teaching Vietnamese to Japanese.
- Ability to research, become a Japanese language expert and study to a post-university level to continue intensive research.