While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view.

Against this background, this book attempts to promote teaching and learning about MT among a broad range of readers, including language learners, language teachers, trainee translators, translation teachers, and professional translators.

The present volume is a collection of selected contributions presented at the Translation and Interpreting Forum Olomouc (TIFO 2019), which was held under the title Teaching Translation vs.