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Working With Languages

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by Sonia Kampshoff | MorePerfect.Digital

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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.

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June 17, 2026

From Interpreting to Language Learning Design - Dr Natalia Tilton

<p>'I dream of a world where no one is disadvantaged because of language differences or deficiencies. And you?'</p><p>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).</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><h2>About Dr Natalia Tilton</h2><p>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.</p><p>Most recently, Natalia worked with Babbel+, developing AI-supported curricula with the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) for adult migrant learners.</p><p>Natalia is passionate about language access and has trained thousands of community interpreters across Germany since the 2015 refugee crisis.</p><ul><li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-tilton-phd-7b403279" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-tilton-phd-7b403279</a></li></ul><br/><h2>About Sonia Kampshoff</h2><p>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.</p><ul><li>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/workingwithlanguages" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/workingwithlanguages</a></li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniakampshoff/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniakampshoff/</a></li><li>Website: <a href="https://moreperfect.digital/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://moreperfect.digital/</a></li></ul><br/><p>If you enjoyed this episode please share it with someone who may like it too, and subscribe to the podcast.</p><p>✉️ <a href="https://working-with-languages-podcast.kit.com/55169b2393" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Join my free newsletter</a></p><p>☕ <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/workingwithlanguages" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Support my work, buy me a coffee</a></p>

June 4, 2026

Software Product Manager with English, French and Italian - Hélène Sanchez

<p>How does a product manager combine tech with languages? And what skills are involved, if not required, to thrive in this career? Today's guest Hélène Sanchez tells us about how she went from Italy to working for the BBC where she discovered her passion for tech. She grew into a strong career as a product manager and discovered how her language skills are an asset when her employer, a British company, merged with a French one, bringing her to forge relationships and nurture communication across languages and cultures.</p><h1>About Hélène Sanchez</h1><p>Hélène is a product manager with experience launching and scaling products across media, developer tooling, B2B SaaS, crafting and supporting cross-functional collaboration across geographies. She’s recently working in the field of AI Governance, developing a product that shows users the value of adopting AI tools. Her career mantra is: Be fast at learning, fast at failing. Love your users, like your product. Empathy is the best strategy. Hélène is half-French, half-Italian, and has been living in the UK for the past 12 years. She is interested in enology, and doing her WSET education.</p><ul><li>LinkedIn ht<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/helene-sanchez" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tps://www.linkedin.com/in/helene-sanchez</a></li><li>Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/helycoccy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/helycoccy/</a></li></ul><br/><h1>About Sonia Kampshoff</h1><p>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.</p><ul><li>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/workingwithlanguages" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/workingwithlanguages</a></li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniakampshoff/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniakampshoff/</a></li><li>Website: <a href="https://moreperfect.digital/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://moreperfect.digital/</a></li></ul><br/><p>If you enjoyed this episode please share it with someone who may like it too, and subscribe to the podcast.</p><p>✉️ <a href="https://working-with-languages-podcast.kit.com/55169b2393" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Join my free newsletter</a></p><p>☕ <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/workingwithlanguages" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Support my work, buy me a coffee</a></p>

May 21, 2026

A Career in Tech as a Multilingual Customer Success Manager - Wendy Rendón

<p>Have you ever wondered what it's like to have a career in tech and work as a customer success manager? Wendy Rendón shares how she went from working in events in Barcelona, Spain to a career in tech working in customer success in tech in Helsinki, Finland. She also shares what makes a good customer success manager and why the role of CSM can be different in different businesses and industries.</p><h2>Key Takeaways:</h2><ul><li>While living and studying in Barcelona she observed the vibrant events scene there and realised she wanted to focus her job and career in this industry.</li><li>Wendy decided to progress her career in events moving into a career in tech, so she moved to Finland, a vibrant and international tech hub.</li><li>She believes that successful people in this role are empathetic, proactive, have good communication skills and are good at project management as they sit between the in-house tech team and the end clients.</li><li>While her working language is English, she regularly uses her Spanish and Catalan to better communicate with her clients.</li></ul><br/><h2>About Wendy</h2><p>Wendy's journey has taken her from the vibrant hustle of Bogota's city jungle to the cosmopolitan charm of Barcelona, and finally to the green, innovative urbanity of Helsinki. Throughout her career, spanning diverse industries, she gained a wealth of experience and developed a versatile skill set that has shaped her as a professional working with languages.</p><h2>Connect with Wendy</h2><p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyvrr/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyvrr/</a></p><h2>About Sonia Kampshoff</h2><p>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.</p><h2>Connect with Sonia</h2><ul><li>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/workingwithlanguages" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/workingwithlanguages</a></li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniakampshoff/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniakampshoff/</a></li><li>Website: <a href="https://moreperfect.digital/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://moreperfect.digital/</a></li><li>Email: <a href="mailto:sonia@moreperfect.digital" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sonia@moreperfect.digital</a></li></ul><br/><p>If you enjoyed this episode please share it with someone who may like it too, and subscribe to the podcast.</p><p>✉️ <a href="https://working-with-languages-podcast.kit.com/55169b2393" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Join my free newsletter</a></p><p>☕ <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/workingwithlanguages" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Support my work, buy me a coffee</a></p><p>Career development, careers with languages, careers in tech, career development, career advancement</p>

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What is 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.

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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.

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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.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
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