By Anindita Saha
Hi everyone. My name is Anindita Saha and I'm currently pursuing french honours from Delhi University. As a student, I had intentions of doing an internship relevant to my subject during the summer break. However, the lockdown brought down my spirits until I came across this wonderful opportunity of interning at modlingua from home. My journey with Modlingua is just 15 days old but I have already started noticing the positive changes and growth within me with respect to qualities like punctuality, efficiency and networking.
What I have understood in whatever little time I have spent in this organisation is that talent is important, there is no doubt about that, but at the same time one needs networking to be able to showcase that talent. Hence comes the importance of marketing, one of the major focuses of this internship. This experience has taught me skills of reaching out to others, promoting myself and my work and creating relations that will most certainly come handy one day in the future.
Other than networking, I have also been part of an online webinar with two of my fellow interns and a mentor under the supervision of Mr. Ravi Kumar. The topic of the webinar was really personal and relatable being a language student, "Ways to learn a foreign language easily". This opportunity helped me with my confidence of speaking live in front of a large audience, that too with a preparation of one day. Hence, I learnt how to be efficient in a limited amount of time period, a skill that I know will help me in numerous ways in the future.
This Internship has also been a great medium to learn leadership skills and how to work as a team with different people. Coordinating with other interns for workshops, giving ideas related to marketing, etc, everything prepared me to be a better version of myself over a period of time.
Lastly, I would like to mention the highly informative videos that are available on the YouTube channel of modlingua. Mr. Ravi Kumar uses simple language and day to day metaphors to explain technical terms of translation and interpretation that are relevant to my subject. Starting from examples of the working of ants to lessons that the lifestyle of a pack of wolves teaches us, he has left no stone unturned to explain topics in a simple manner.
I believe enrolling myself for this internship at modlingua has been one of the best decisions I have ever made and my personal growth is evident enough. I look forward to learning more from him and his experienced team.
