Dear student,

 This is the first unit in this three-credit- hour course titled Translation(II). As you already know from the table of contents, this course consists of five units.

    In this introductory unit of this course, some of the constraints and difficulties that face students in translators are to be represented. These will include the issue of acceptability vs. correctness, the problem of culture-bound terms, the question of neologisms, the English phrasal verbs and idioms, the difficulty of dealing with unfindable words, and the importance of realizing the major differences between British and American English. To achieve the objectives of this unit, a lot of exercises will be given in addition to a sufficient number of SAQs.