The manual is the first part of the educational complex and is built on the material of authentic specialized texts in Italian, affecting the topics that are most relevant for the initial stage of technical translation training. The sources of texts were special (technical) literature, as well as materials published on specialized portals on the Internet. Each section includes several thematic lessons, the main text of which is equipped with a dictionary containing both terms that are directly related to the subject of the text and the vocabulary of the common plan.