I use WinOnCD 5 PE as my default burning program. I burn a little bit of everything, VCD, SVCD, data cds, audio cds with cd-text, (CloneCD for games and other software, of course) and I find it does everything well. Its a great (and logical) step up from EZCD creator, which I hated. I guess I never used Nero simply because I discovered previous versions of WinONCD 1st, and it works good, so I stuck with it.
I am using an english version, too.
@olyboy: if you go to these boards, I'm sure you know that everything is free if you look in the right places