Translation is the act of converting the meaning of a text to another language. The language of the original text is often referred as the ’source language’ while the language which the text is translated into is the ’target language’.
Depending on the content of the source text we can distinguish more kinds of translations, such as legal, technical, financial, business, marketing, medical, software, literary and others. All of them require different sets of skills and different fields of expertise.