TN> Sometimes the Canadians use British dialects (such as British
"colour"
 TN> instead American "color")
 TN> Sometimes the Canadian use American terms (such as American "truck"
 TN> instead of British "lorry")

And this is only one example.
Then we have the Aussies.

 TN> My point was that English, especially American English, is really a
 TN> combination of many languages.  There are neither consistent pronuciations
 TN> nor consistent spellings of the same word or phrase. That must make
 TN> English VERY difficult for others to learn.

Not really. Very many things here are in English now so it's beginning to
be "normal"
for us to speek it.
In school they start to learn English in 3rd ot 4th grade.

 TN> I struggle to manage some VERY poor German (a orderly language) and yet
 TN> others learn English (a disorderly language).  AMAZING!!!

German is much more difficult then English. They use inverted word order but I do
speek high German very good. But coming to Munic I don't understand a word unless
they speek "German".

//Bj”rn

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