You Europeans all watch our shows, movies and music way more than you probably listen to the same entertainment that comes from Britian, so I am sure many people pick up the American version more.

Just basing it off my Slovakian girlfriend who says she learned English by watching American television and listening to our music and she also said that American movies and shows were often more popular than native culture. But I don't really know, I speak Afro American which is king of all the English languages.

learn yes, american english though, british style is just not as important or popular these days.

Seems more probable to me that they teach Chinese English.

Latin America picks American English a lot more too and the numbers of English speakers is on rise. I also believe most people who just absorb the language without a more formal training tend to pick the american variation up since you'll usually find a lot more media using it.

Of course the situation on China and India  should outweight this tho.

I don't know what English I talk.

ARGGGGG! I don't know if I talk English.

Serious now. I speak a mixed English more focused in British English.

HAAA LOL. There are some that speak the famous GOOGLE ENGLISH ROFL.

I wana aeala se gedal. 

or rather

I fail to see the difference.

Language is an ever changing, ever evolving thing.  The above was "I fail to see the difference in" in old english if you didn't get the point. (well close enough anyway.)

One thing is FOR SURE, internet English is 90% american english, phrases like LOL, ROFL, and most other slang was invented by Americans and honestly at this point I'm pretty sure American English is on the rise far more than British English, mostly due to influence.  England is no where near the global power or influence that America is, thats just a fact.

But we all know which is the more fun version to use and thats good old American! We try not to take the whole thing too dang seriously and just have fun with it.

Are you an English major that had to study old English or something? Because your point is perfect as language always evolves. They even put fanboy in the US dictionary.

British English = Tea with the Queen old fashioned conservative  English. Good spelling/grammar are expected with British English.  

American English = America invented their own style of English to be different to the British. Bad spelling and poor grammar is acceptable and common place in America. 

William Shakespeare would be turning in his grave over the American bastardisation of the English language.

British English is universal English and taught through out the world except America. Americans always want to be different to Britain and form their own American identity. 

Most English speeking countries have a slightly different dialect from other English speaking countries, and within these countries different regions will have slightly different dialects from other regions within the same country. American English is (somewhat) unique because Americans have choosen some bizzare spellings for words; my personal favourite is the American spelling for doughnut ... Being that it is a product that is made from dough and in the shape of a nut they decided upon the spelling 'donut'