"main language"

jp, another thing for your to-do list:

Somehow making it clearer on the profile page that "main language" means your strongest language (usually your mother tongue). A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding that one.

I would simply change it to native language. And for the other languages, there are the ratings, there you can see how weel that person knows them!

But on the other hand, maybe it would be nice to enable memebers to pick more mother tongues if they are ´morelingual´???

I think that would open a "can of worms", Cisa, but I like your idea of just calling it "native language".

OK, in the todolist.

I think you can limit the native languages to maybe three. E.g. a Burundian guy with Gonkian mother and Latin father...?

Like I said - a can of worms. I think a lot of people consider themselves native speakers when they are not.

You're right.

Yes, I reject the idea of more native languages, it was just a stupid spark of my mind... :S Of, course, poor Burundian guy with Gonkian mum and Latin dad will have to choose , but as Kafetzou said it would just create more problems.

Bilinguality does exist, will they have to choose between one of their languages then? I have heard about it in a northern part of USA, I think it was Alaska... but I might be wrong.

How about a Belgian mother and a Samisk father... do they have neonatal lingvists in Belgium?