Internship

My dream is to use my creativity and communication skills to create multilingual educational materials and picture books.

Miluska Chuquirachi
Graduated from Colegio San Agustin de Lima (Peru)

What did you do for your internship?

I wanted to improve my translation and writing skills in English, Japanese, and Spanish, so I sought an internship at Yaraku, Inc. Yaraku is a startup company that develops and operates machine translation tools based on the philosophy, “For Enjoyable Global Communications.” I was part of the Yaraku marketing team for 11 days during my summer vacation, and I wrote an article on how intercultural communication should ideally take place within a company.

What did you learn from your internship?

I learned about internal communications at Yaraku from staff all who had very different backgrounds and thought about the fundamental issues faced by the company while taking my own experience and opinions into consideration. Through dialogue, I was able to examine my own thoughts and summarize them in an article titled, “What it means to have a true intercultural communication”

How did the internship change your thinking?

While on assignment, I was able to interact with people working in a different field than university education, which allowed me to relook at my intended career from a new perspective. My dream is to someday create multilingual educational materials and picture books. In the future, I hope to find a position in the publishing or education industries, working in a job related to multilingual communication in a department where I can leverage my creativity and communication skills while using a variety of languages.