Dialects of English around the world

When I was a high school boy, I thought only Japanese including me speak the dialect of English. Eight years later, I finally found that my idea is totally wrong and almost everyone (even native speakers) has his/her own dialect in speaking English. In my case, I found it by communicating my Indian, Russian, Italian, Chinese, and German speakers of English.

Here is another remarkable example of such diversity of English.

http://www.bl.uk/evolvingenglish/maplisten.html

Although Japanese school kids tend to think English as a tool of entering universities, English is a language to communicate with people around the world.