BASIC PROBLEMS IN TRANSLATION

Abstract

The process of translation is often considered to be fun, an assumption common among people who have never actually tried to translate a text that could be reasonably considered to be of a technical or literary nature. Translation, however, can cause many difficulties because of the differences between languages (morphological, phonological, lexical and others). Therefore, the process of translation includes several steps, and a translator has to be very accurate, organized and precise in applying translation strategies/approaches, methods and procedures in practice. The most important problems related to translation of abstracts of research articles into English are the shortage of professional scientific translators and the insufficient knowledge of non-native-speaker researchers about the proper style and structure of scientific abstracts in English.