I just wanted to say how delighted I was to join our LingQ member yeah_ok67, from Taiwan, in a Skype discussion in French last night. His pronunciation and use of the language are excellent. His Italian is also fluent since he studied for a year in Perugia Italy. His best European language apparently is English but I did not speak to him in English. He also speaks Mandarin and Taiwanese, he told me. I did not hear him in his native language, but can only say that his French and Italian were impressive.
I am always delighted and encouraged when I hear people speak well in another language, when I sense that they have penetrated another, and distant (at least geographically) culture. We have many such people at LingQ.
That is what LingQ is all about. Thank you, all of you enthusiastic linguists!