In translating, the translators face many problem and one of them deals with linguistic problem. This research was conducted in a study of the linguistic problems faced by English Education Department students in translating text. The purpose of this study was to find out the linguistic problems faced by students in English Language Education Department in a private university in Yogyakarta in translating texts and to find out strategies used by students in English Language Education Department in a private university in Yogyakarta to overcome linguistic problems in translate text. This research was implemented in a batch of 2015 qualitative research designs and three English Education students. The department at a private university in Yogyakarta is a participant. This study uses qualitative descriptive to investigate certain phenomena. In addition, interviews are used as a method of data collection. Data is categorized using three steps of coding and descriptive analysis to describe the results. The results showed that there were two linguistic problems faced by participants, namely lack of mastery of vocabulary and lack of knowledge about grammar. But the linguistic problems faced by three participants can be overcome, looking using a dictionary, finding information about grammar from the internet, asking someone, and guessing meaning.