This article considers the features of modern youth slang that are viewed as the factors creating a challenge for translation. The focus is made upon the units of modern German youth slang. The research is aimed to identify the difficulties encountered in the oral and written translation of youth slangisms, as well as to determine possible ways of translation to overcome these difficulties. To prove the necessity of this study, as well as to specify the problems that translators face while

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... ng with German slangisms, a survey was conducted among international students studying translation as their major. As a result, 5 groups of problems were identified, their detailed analysis was performed, namely: a challenge to combine expressive and emotional components with meaning, untranslatability, quickly modifiable vocabulary of slang and the impossibility of fixing it all in special slang dictionaries, polysemy, differences in the areas of use of slang in different languages and censorship...