Working With Languages

About Working With Languages

On Working with Languages together with my guests I explore how we can use our language skills for career development, career advancement and even a career change from translator and language teacher to working in finance, sales, customer success and more. Whether you want to be employed or freelance, working full time or part time, languages are a soft skill directly linked to communication, relationship building and human connection which open doors to a number of meaningful career opportunities. Our guests' jobs include: translator, language teacher, financial advisor, international sale, HR, leadership, company culture, wedding celebrant, customer success manager, localisation manager, head of brand, linguist, co-founder, product manager, copywriter, customer service. Companies as guest include: Yoast, DeepL, Weglot, HomeExchange, what3words, freelanceverse, Leonardo English, Lemon Twist. -- About the Host: Sonia Kampshoff is a translator turned multilingual digital marketer and now podcast host. Growing up bilingual, languages have been a constant in her life. The question of how to build a career around languages has interested her since childhood – and she is now exploring it with her multilingual guests on Working With Languages. She is available to speak on podcasts and stages about marketing, languages, work and podcasting. -- If you enjoyed podcasts like Freelanceverse and Squiggly Careers, you’d find Working With Languages to be your go-to source of inspiration for career advancement, career development and career change for multilingual professionals.

Publisher

Sonia Kampshoff | MorePerfect.Digital

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Aug 2025

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026

   Lawyer-Linguist: Working Between Two Legal Systems with Nicole Fenwick

   What happens when you study the law of two countries, in two languages, at the same time? My guest this week is Nicole Fenwick, a lawyer-linguist who works where languages meet the law. Nicole grew up in Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast. She went on to study English and French law at the University of Leicester, on a course of only eight students. She spent a year at the law school in Strasbourg alongside an internship at the European Parliament. After that she trained and worked as a solicitor in Sheffield. There she realised the part of the job she loved most was doing all the firm’s French translation work. Not long after the Brexit referendum, she took a master’s in translation at Durham University. She planned to become a lawyer-linguist at one of the EU institutions. While she waited on the application process, she started freelancing as a legal translator and found she could make a real living from it. Key Takeaways: What it’s like to be trained to think like an English lawyer and a French lawyer at once How her business has grown from contracts and T&Cs into cross-border estates, wills and probate Working with Anglo-French lawyers in the UK and notaries in France Why she keeps her legal knowledge current through STEP, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners Adding Spanish as a working language from Barcelona, and the free Catalan lessons on offer there The different routes into lawyer-linguist work, from law to languages and the other way round Why she believes certified and legal translation is, to a large degree, AI-proof, and why clients who try AI often come back If you’ve ever wondered how to bring a love of languages together with a specialist profession, I think you’ll find Nicole’s story really inspiring. About Nicole Fenwick Nicole is a French-to-English lawyer-linguist and legal translator specialising in legal and certified translations. With legal qualifications in both English and French law, she brings a unique combination of legal expertise and linguistic precision to her work, with a particular focus on property transactions, cross-border estates and official legal documentation. https://www.coleytranslates.com/ (https://www.coleytranslates.com/) www.linkedin.com/in/frenchenglishlegaltranslatorandlawyerlinguist (http://www.linkedin.com/in/frenchenglishlegaltranslatorandlawyerlinguist) About Sonia Kampshoff Sonia is a translator turned multilingual digital marketer specialising in paid media, and now also a podcaster. Growing up bilingual, languages have been a constant in her life. In 2025 she launched a podcast where together with her guests she explores the huge variety of jobs and career opportunities open to people with language skills. She is available to speak on podcasts and stages about marketing, languages, work and podcasting. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workingwithlanguages/ (https://www.instagram.com/workingwithlanguages/) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingWithLanguages (https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingWithLanguages) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniakampshoff (https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniakampshoff) Website: https://workingwithlanguages.com/ (https://workingwithlanguages.com/) If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe. And if you know someone who’d find it interesting, do share it with them. Chapters 00:00 Coming up 00:23 Welcome to Working With Languages 01:15 Nicole's favourite word: sobremesa 03:41 Growing up in Scarborough 04:19 Studying English and French law at Leicester 06:46 A year in Strasbourg and the European Parliament 07:49 From solicitor to translator 08:53 A master's in translation at Durham 09:48 Falling into freelance legal translation 10:30 Cross-border estates, wills and probate 13:40 Staying qualified: STEP, ITI and CIOL 14:33 Life in Barcelona: Spanish and Catalan 16:25 Routes into lawyer-linguist work 19:57 Areas a lawyer-linguist can specialise in 20:57 AI and legal translation 24:11 Where to find Nicole 24:37 Wrap-up

2. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Introducing Season 2

   Today we are launching season 2 of the Working With Languages podcast! Over the summer I reflected on the conversation had and developed the Working With Languages framework, splitting careers into two groups: Languages as the main service: translators, language teachers and linguists Languages as an additional skill: this could be any job or career type where languages are an enhancement, potentially leading to new opportunities and career advancements Combined with the framework and supported by my career from translator to multilingual digital marketer and now also podcast host, I am also launching a brand new career mentoring programme where I support people choose a career - or make a career change - around languages. Get ready for more inspiring conversations on working with languages! Find out more: 👱🏻♀️About me (https://workingwithlanguages.com/about/) 🎙️About the podcast (https://workingwithlanguages.com/the-podcast/) 🗨️About my career mentoring (https://workingwithlanguages.com/career-mentoring/) 🖊️Drop me a line (https://workingwithlanguages.com/contact/) if you'd like to leave a comment or be a guest on the pod Connect with me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/workingwithlanguages/)and subscribe to my YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingWithLanguages) channel.

3. 

   17 Jun 2026

   From Interpreting to Language Learning Design - Dr Natalia Tilton

   'I dream of a world where no one is disadvantaged because of language differences or deficiencies. And you?' A bold, heart-warming statement Dr Natalia Tilton shares on her LinkedIn profile. Natalia, today's guest, is a learning design specialist who started her career in interpreting for institutions like the UN before moving into community interpreting training (she explains what it is in her episode). Her PhD thesis focused on research around language learning anxiety - we all feel anxious speaking a learnt language we are not as good in as our own native language - and how that affects interpreters and immigrants alike. Currently her focus is on developing language learning curricula and programmes - some government-backed - for immigrants and refugees, helping them integrate more effectively into their new country and rebuilding their lives. She is also working on an app helping nurses coming to Germany learn medical German so they can pass their nursing test and be able to work there. About Dr Natalia Tilton Dr Natalia Tilton is an EdTech consultant, curriculum designer and inclusion educator. She leads programs for language access, multilingualism, and AI-supported language learning. She holds a PhD in Linguistics and Migration Studies and has worked with institutions including Babbel+, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), the Goethe-Institut and the University of Potsdam. Most recently, Natalia worked with Babbel+, developing AI-supported curricula with the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) for adult migrant learners. Natalia is passionate about language access and has trained thousands of community interpreters across Germany since the 2015 refugee crisis. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-tilton-phd-7b403279 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-tilton-phd-7b403279) About Sonia Kampshoff Sonia is a translator turned multilingual digital marketer specialising in paid media, and now also a podcaster. Growing up bilingual, languages have been a constant in her life. In 2025 she launched a podcast where together with her guests she explores the huge variety of jobs and career opportunities open to people with language skills. She is available to speak on podcasts and stages about marketing, languages, work and podcasting. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workingwithlanguages (https://www.instagram.com/workingwithlanguages) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniakampshoff/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniakampshoff/) Website: https://moreperfect.digital/ (https://moreperfect.digital/) If you enjoyed this episode please share it with someone who may like it too, and subscribe to the podcast. ✉️ Join my free newsletter (https://working-with-languages-podcast.kit.com/55169b2393) ☕ Support my work, buy me a coffee (https://buymeacoffee.com/workingwithlanguages)

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