I am from Germany and the last three years I attended a vocational school, where we also had English lessons for two hours each week. I guess my English isn´t perfect either, but most people in my class could not even read a simple text, let alone form a coherent sentence. I mean, they were between 18 and 25 years old and in our country, you learn English at school from the fifth grade on, when you´re 12. So, on topic: English. Spelling is another thing, at least in German I can write quite some pages without making spelling errors. I know people who can´t write two sentences without mistake.
On the other hand, I, too, can´t draw anything that is more complex than a square or a stick figure.
