Native names and Scientific names

Interesting question. I think it depends how familiar you are with Latin/native names.

I changed my settings recently to Latin names first. I thought it would help me when identifying, because the English names are confusing to me - ‘yellow shouldered this, yellow margined that, black shouldered the other.’ But I learned all of them in Latin first. I think it has helped me in that way. But what I’ve found is that I’m completely lost when getting notifications about my own observations in taxa I’m unfamiliar with. ‘Someone added an ID - Deroceras reticulatum’ - “Oh, is that one of those cool plants I saw, or a fungus? Ah no - it’s the slug.” Now if it had come up as ‘Netted Field Slug’, I would have been much more informed straight away, and I might even have a chance of remembering it!