Some say: one who holds at least two languages and can translate from one language to another .
But what does translate? This means, of course, not literally translate individual words that make up the text, and translate the meaning of words spoken or written.
outstanding scientist-linguist LS Barkhudarov defines this activity as a process of converting speech works in one language in a voice work in another language, while maintaining constant of the content, that is, the values of .
We should correctly understand the content of the source text, and fully and accurately - appropriately - to transfer this content means another language.
This applies to oral and written translation.