If your going to send it you have to translate it. But you can use other alternatives such as a passport in combination with other stuff on the list.

Maybe someone can chime in on this but as far as the directions from USCIS go your not allowed to translate your own. I had my friend proof read my translation and she signed off on the translation certification. All birth certificates are a little different but if you know know how to use word. What I did was I went section by section and created a text box for each section. So, it looked like a mirror image of birth certificate. Mine had some really fancy old school spanish so I just googled the words and most of the time I found they have been asked before.