I'm glad to hear people have a good opinion of American's in general. Sometimes I hear my friends talk about how anyone who comes to this country should learn our language, and I think they are insane!

I would think that one of the hardest parts of learning english, or participating in an primarily english speaking forum, such as this, would be understanding the slang. And I am sure that is true in any language, but some of the phrases we commonly use, taken literally probally seem very odd