This volume of peer reviewed papers has been prepared by a team of translation scholars of Ventspils University of Applied Sciences. Janis Silis is Professor at the Faculty of Translation Studies; Guntars Dreijers is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Translation Studies; Silga Svi e and Janis Veckracis are Assistant Professors of the Faculty of Translation Studies. They teach various subjects of translation and linguistics, and they participate in international conferences and projects.