If they are hard coded, you could add the translations yourself. https://socialengine.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SU/pages/5308928/SE+PHP+-+Language+Manager but you would need to know if they are hard coded or how they are done. 

From our Hello World plugin for learning development, you can see two examples of the code for translation. One is for the "Hello World" phrase and the other is for the "post a hello world" phrase.

<div>
      <?php echo $this->translate("Hello world") ?>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="layout_right">
    <?php if( $this->viewer()->getIdentity() ): ?>
    <div class="quicklinks">
      <ul>
        <li>
          <?php echo $this->htmlLink(array('action' => 'create', 'reset' => false), $this->translate('Post a Hello World'), array('class' => 'buttonlink icon_hello_new')) ?>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <?php endif; ?>

This post was edited by socialenginestaff at February 10, 2022 11:22 AM EST

Maybe one of these plugins will work, I suggest to contact each of these two experts to ask if they would work for what you want:

https://community.socialengine.com/classifieds?category=6&closed=&orderby=creation_date&search=translate&end_date=&start_date=&tag=&page=&0_0_32_field_32=&0_0_2_alias_currency%5Bmin%5D=&0_0_2_alias_currency%5Bmax%5D=&0_0_27_field_27=&0_0_18_field_18=&has_photo=

EGAD! That's a super long link lol.

I edited your post rather than deleting the code as it wasn't in the code tag as required here. Normally we delete.  Is there anything in that skill item tpl file that may be useful for this? I'm not an expert at the translation stuff unfortunately so it's hit or miss.

Ok maybe if you check the code for the menus as that allows translation. application/modules/Core/controllers/AdminMenusController.php

// Make select options
   50:     $menuList = array();
   51:     foreach( $menus as $menu ) {
   52:       $menuList[$menu->name] = $this->view->translate($menu->title);
   53      }