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England and America are two countries divided by a common
language.
George Bernard Shaw
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(xue yi men yuyan, jiu shi duo yi ge guancha shijie de chuanghu)
To learn a language is to have one more, window from which to look
at the world.
Americans who travel abroad for the. first time are often shocked to
discover that, despite a.11 the.progress that has been made in the. last
30 years, many foreign.people still speak foreign languages.
Dave Barry
Discussion

1. 
   Different kinds of language variations.
   
2. 
   The main variants of the English Language (from the point of phonetic, spelling, morphemic, lexemic and idiomatic peculiarities):
   

1. 
   Received Pronunciation;
   
2. 
   American English;
   
3. 
   Canadian English;
   
4. 
   Australian English;
   
5. 
   other Englishes.
   

Terminology
Standard English is the form of E which is current and literary. Standard E is the variety most widely accepted and understood either within an E-speaking country or throughout the whole E-speaking world.
British English is often referred to the written Standard E and the pro­nunciation known as Received Pronunciation.
Variants of English are regional varieties possessing the literary form. There are variants existing on the territory of the UK (British E, Scottish E and Irish E), and variants existing outside the British Isles (American E, Canadian E, New Zealand E, South African E, Indian E).
American E (video Hugh Laurie ‘The British Accent vs American Accent’).
Canadian E (video ‘Talking Canadian’).
Australian E (video and script Adam Hill; ‘Australian English’).
South African E (video ‘How to speak with South African accent’).
Percentage of English speakers by country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population

80 - 100 % 40 - 60 % 0 - 20 %
60 - 80 % 20 - 40 %