Abstract

Translator training has been a field in Translation Studies that has known enormous development for the last decades aiming to instruct future translators by providing them with a solid theoretical background and helping them to improve multiple translation competences. The present paper focuses on the study of an area in translator training that bears a specific significance to the practice of translation, namely, translation problems and their close relationship to translation errors. The research starts by making the crucial distinction between translation problems and translation difficulties and it moves on by describing Christiane Nord’s pedagogical approach to translation problems and their classification into four major categories. Afterwards, the research focuses on the nature and types of translation errors. Finally, the paper ends by suggesting some proposals that would help future translators both identify and avoid translation errors