I used to blog in 'Americanese' (I was fairly fluent in that too), but got some stick from your fellow-countrymen who doubted my nationality as a result, so I reverted to our arcane spelling that was deliberately designed to make our lingo almost impossible to learn for 'outsiders'.
A language that is a conglomerate of French, Anglo-Saxon, Latin & Greek (oh yeah, there's yet another contribution by those lazy Greeks to western civilisation), and has minor contributions from several other languages - incl. even Hindi!! - is bound to present a few challenges to its students.