DRAFT PROPOSAL
This is what site admins see in the UI:

This is what the people filling the form see:

I would like to propose the following changes: - Rename "categories" to "recipient groups" in the backend, since that is what people are actually creating. - Allow customizing the label of the "Category" field (what site visitors see in the form). Depending on the use case, you may want to call it "Reason for contacting us", or "Select department to contact", or whatever. - Whatever the label is configured to be, make that the heading of the "Category" column. - Potentially also allow customizing the label of each "category", so that the options shown to site visitors in the select can have different labels from what the admins call them "internally".
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There is a Drupal 7 contrib module that "lets the administrator see all administration pages in her preferred language" and which could be ported to Backdrop: https://www.drupal.org/project/...
Allow admin to select admin language seperate from front end language (multilingual)
@stpaultim – You're right: my approach affects also the main menu. I guess, because menus are also considered as user interface (not as content). @findlabnet – If I didn't miss anything,...
Allow admin to select admin language seperate from front end language (multilingual)
Go to the account edit of the desired user. On the horizontal tab below "Region and Language," select "English" or another language. WFM.
Allow admin to select admin language seperate from front end language (multilingual)