CURRENT ISSUES OF TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING STUDIES

From time to time in a varying degree contemporary person who knows a foreign language acts as a translator or an interpreter. In this article the tasks of translation and interpreting studies are specified, the difficulties with the interpretation of translated texts are pointed out, the criteria for translation evaluation are proposed as well as the methods of “paraphrase” and “retelling”, appropriate use of which improves the skills of an interpreter or translator and allows to avoid tricky situations.