Being "poor" at English usually means people X is very likely to be able to engage learners of X. Hungarian is sometimes said to be in this case. Further examples exit in most Asian countries but as we know HK is not known for not "forcing" English on foreigners and those who don't look like us.

The problem I noticed about language education in Hungary (as a Hungarian, you didn’t study in Hungary), is that it isn’t very speech focused. Most, if not all, children learn some level of english in school, however they are not taught how to converse in the language and therefore many people can grammatically correct a native speaker in writing but won’t find the courage to ask for directions personally. About the german thing, it was much more popular a few decades back, think gen x times.

Actually, you are right.