Russian School of Translation and Interpretation: Traditions and New Challenges
Training professional translators and interpreters has a shorter history compared to training specialists in a lot of other fields: medicine, law, engineering, teaching, etc. Only a little over half a century ago did society realize the need for training professional translators and interpreters, therefore, the need to understand the nature of translation activity, to develop curricula and to devise a new field in the theory of training - translation didactics. T&I schools, institutes and university departments contributed to a didactic system aimed at training professionals able to ensure interlanguage communication of various complexity. The new millennium has presented new challenges for training professional translators and interpreters that can be divided into three categories: universal processes concerning both the profession itself and professional training; new realities of professional translation and interpretation, innovations in technology; new realities of teaching professionals.