How many hurdles does English have to pass before I can be a translator?

You can't be an interpreter until you pass cet 6.

In fact, personal ability, as long as English knowledge is solid enough and you have good listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, especially listening and speaking skills, is the basic ability requirement of interpretation. Whether translation certificate is needed depends on the requirements of the company. Translation certificates are generally required. Even if you don't need it, you can take the translation grade certificate, which is very important for future translation work.

How to practice English translation

The national foreign language translation certificate examination is a national non-academic certificate examination jointly organized by the examination center of the Ministry of Education and Beijing Foreign Studies University. It mainly tests candidates' foreign language translation and interpretation ability, and provides authoritative certification for candidates' translation qualifications.

The examination refers to the translation qualification certification standards of the United States, Canada, the European Union, Britain, Australia and other countries and regions, and is an international-level certification examination. Generally speaking, you need to pass CET 8 and CET 6. However, translation depends on talents and hobbies, and it is not that people with excellent exams or high professional titles are more competent.

If you want to highlight your professional quality of English translation when recruiting, you must at least get CATTI's translation or interpretation level 3. If I have good ability, I have been to the second level. Of course, now more and more units are paying more and more attention to ability rather than certificate.