The goal is to gain a scientific understanding of the nature of language that can be applied in many areas, such as applied linguistics, anthropology, speech pathology, language teaching, computational linguistics, and cognitive science. Translator or interpreter, computer industry (linguists work with computer programmers on speech recognition, search engines, machine translation and artificial intelligence), speech pathologist with children and adults with brain impairments affecting speech (aphasias and genetic disorders), government (FBI, CIA and the military), education, teaching languages (English or a foreign language, in the US or abroad), language documentation and preservation (with organizations that work on preservation of endangered languages, such as SIL or Living Tongues), accent coaching in the entertainment industry: helping actors acquire the desired accent for the role.