Translation is an advanced activity in the use of language that requires different language skills. In this article we will address the necessary translation skills, the teaching of this activity and show the curriculum applied in our Department of Italian Language of Misr University for Science & Technology. We will put in place a practicing test in which some students who have a good level and are in the fourth year (2021/2022) to perform translation exercises. Following the execution of these exercises, I examined their skills and their acceptability in practicing translation and to what extent the current curriculum helps them practice translation. There will be a description of the students' performance and an overall assessment of their tests in each exercise. Among the results, the importance of increasing the teaching load of translation in the curriculum stands out in order to increase vocabulary and enhance students' linguistic competence which must be improved and strengthened; and the existence of weaknesses and insufficiencies in the cognitive abilities that are the basis of the practice of their translation, for this reason it is necessary to correct these weak points through the execution of some exercises that promote such abilities.